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Rallies against Trump continue in a few cities
President-elect’s advisers call for transition peace
Anti-Donald Trump protesters, including many pro-immigrant groups, held a demonstration in New York City Sunday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
By Robert Jablon
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Immigrants, their advocates, and others opposing a Donald Trump presidency continued to protest Sunday, speaking out against the president-elect’s support of deportation and other measures.

Organizers in Manhattan carried signs in English and Spanish saying things like ‘‘Hate won’t make us great,’’ and chanted, ‘‘We are here to stay.’’

More than 1,000 people joined the march, which started mid-afternoon and extended into the night. They assembled outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, then marched down Sixth Avenue before returning to chant outside the president-elect’s residence.

It was the latest in days of demonstrations across the country and even throughout the world. Protests were held Sunday in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and other cities.

Several hundred protesters marched around Philadelphia’s City Hall and then down Market Street to Independence Mall, carrying signs and chanting ‘‘Donald Trump has got to go!’’ and ‘‘This is what democracy looks like.’’

In Los Angeles, a few hundred people gathered outside CNN’s Los Angeles headquarters, and in San Francisco, hundreds of people, including many families with children, marched from Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach chanting ‘‘Love trumps hate!’’

About 800 people marched through Sacramento and hundreds others formed a human chain around the nearly 3.5-mile perimeter of Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Rallies in Oakland have at times become unruly, but those who came to the lake held hands and chanted, ‘‘We reject the president-elect.’’

The rallies followed numerous protests on Saturday, from New York to Indianapolis to Los Angeles.

Mostly, the demonstrations were peaceful. However, in Portland, Ore., a man was shot and wounded Saturday morning during a confrontation. He is expected to survive. Police arrested two teenagers in that shooting.

Portland police also said they arrested 71 people late Saturday and early Sunday during anti-Trump protests downtown.

The police said most protesters were cited for disorderly conduct and failing to obey an officer.

Up to 8,000 people participated in protests in Los Angeles on Saturday, condemning what they saw as Trump’s hate speech about Muslims, pledge to deport people in the country illegally, and crude comments about women.

Meanwhile, several dozen Trump supporters gathered at his vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to urge protesters to give him a chance. One person held a cross that read ‘‘All lives matter to me.’’

Demonstrations also took place internationally. On Saturday, a group of Mexicans at a statue representing independence in Mexico City expressed their concerns about a possible wave of deportations. One school teacher said it would add to the ‘‘unrest’’ that’s already in Mexico.

About 300 people protested Trump’s election as the next American president outside the US Embassy near the landmark Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Members of Trump’s inner circle questioned the protesters’ motivations on Sunday.

“I’m not sure these are even Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama supporters,’’ former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,’’ citing an incident where people were “banging on my car.’’ “These people are, you know, kind of like professional protesters more.’’

Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said on “Fox News Sunday’’ that Obama, Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, and others should “come forward and ask for calm and ask for a peaceful transition, and ask their supporters which are masquerading as protesters now — many of them professional and paid by the way, I’m sure — ask them to give this man a chance so that this country can flourish.’’

Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, countered that demonstrators helped deliver equal rights to black Americans.

“When you have a president in his campaign who ran saying things that are just contrary to a fact but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of Americans: God bless the protesters,’’ Booker said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.’’

At the same time, Booker urged protesters not to turn to “hateful speech’’ or violate “principles and ideals that are sacred in this country. We need to raise our voices, but we do not need to indulge in hate.’’

House Speaker Paul Ryan also struck a more conciliatory note than the Trump advisers.

“As long as protests are peaceful, if people want to express themselves that’s what we can do in this country, that’s what the First Amendment is all about,’’ Ryan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.’’

Material from Bloomberg News was used in this report.