Several hundred protesters clashed with police and blocked the highway Friday afternoon in front of the Burlingame, California venue where Donald Trump was scheduled to kick off the California Republican Convention.
As the GOP frontrunner’s motorcade neared the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the cars made a U-turn and pulled to the shoulder of the freeway, allowing Trump and his entourage to disembark and proceed to a side entrance on foot.
Donald Trump just had to jump over a highway median to avoid protesters on his way to #CAGOP pic.twitter.com/N55mL13cmP
— GIF The News (@NowThisGIF) April 29, 2016
Outside the event, protesters carried signs decrying Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants and minorities. A few knocked barricades aside in an effort to enter the hotel and were pushed back by security guards wielding batons.
While trying to capture the chaotic scene, CNN accidentally caught some not-suitable-for-TV language in its footage.
Host Brooke Baldwin urged the producers to “get off that picture,” saying the network was “not trying to have the ‘F’ word broadcast on TV.”
Heat already at the #CAGOP… Protestor sneaks inside, screams in protest, escorted outside. No violence. @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/38fVqpI72F
— Steve Patterson (@PattersonNBC) April 29, 2016
These crafty protesters are unfurling a banner from INSIDE the hotel here in CA where Trump is expected to speak. pic.twitter.com/PhInD8iBXF
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) April 29, 2016
More protesters show up for the anti-Trump protest outside the #CAGOP pic.twitter.com/sTX1yyIRIS
— Marcus Yam (@yamphoto) April 29, 2016
And then this happens. Protesters break through the barricade, rush for the entrance and clash with police. #CAGOP pic.twitter.com/sMftB887Hk
— Marcus Yam (@yamphoto) April 29, 2016
Protesters push past the barricade and rush towards the entrance of the #CAGOP, stopped and pushed back by police. pic.twitter.com/a8sfCo34sD
— Marcus Yam (@yamphoto) April 29, 2016
