Trump supporters announced earlier in the week that they were holding a "Patriot Day" at the Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr.
The Latest on pro and anti-Trump rallies turned violent in Berkeley, California.
Demonstrators in support of U.S. President Donald Trump rally in Berkeley, California in Berkeley, California, U.S., April 15, 2017.
They say demonstrators left Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr.
An estimated 500 protesters gathered at Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley around 2 p.m., Berkeleyside reported.
Police put in a makeshift barrier of plastic orange poles and orange fence mesh to separate both sides, but that quickly came down as demonstrators started punching and kicking each other, while pepper spray and firecrackers were thrown to the crowd. Even so, they tweeted that officers had discovered and confiscated a knife, a stun gun, flagpoles, and other contraband.
With a motto of "Not on our watch", the Oath Keepers posted live feeds throughout the day's events at Berkeley, with one man in a video claiming that he received death threats from anti-Trump protesters.
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Berkeley Police on Monday released the names of 19 adults arrested during the demonstrations.
The rally followed a similar confrontation in March that left several people injured and led to arrests. His presentation was cancelled. He held a crumpled "Stop Liberal Intolerance" sign in his hand.
Nancy Traver, of Silver Spring, Maryland, who was at the Washington march said, "Every president, Democratic and Republican for years has showed, has revealed his tax returns, so why shouldn't Trump?"
"As a veteran, I like the track America is on, and that Trump is willing to stand and say we are still America and we are not going to be globalist, we're not going to be a communist country", Tempesta said.
With no official communication between the city and protesters, officers were forced to estimate how many demonstrators would show up, [Berkeley Police Officer Byron White] said.
One of the most widespread concerns about Trump's presidency was that his disrespectful attitudes towards women and minorities would foment a permissive culture of misogyny and racism among his supporters. "We march because it is in the best interest of the American people to know what financial entanglements and conflicts of interest our leaders have". The protesters have been calling the event the "Tax March".
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