WASHINGTON
Protests erupted Friday in the nation’s capital shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as 45th President of the United States.
Hundreds of protestors set trash bins on fire, charged police and vandalized parked vehicles just blocks from the Capitol building where the inauguration ceremony took place for the freshly inaugurated president.
At one point, a limousine was set alight outside of the Washington Post newspaper’s downtown offices, sending flocks of protesters fleeing as flames sent a pillar of smoke into the afternoon sky. Firefighters were called in, ultimately dousing the rising inferno.
At a
Most protests ended peacefully but a few hundred demonstrators were intent to instigate violence as they carried hammers and crowbars and destroyed public property, according to police.
One protestor, 26-year-old Jan
"I am from this city, am I going to condone the construction of this city? No,"