Anti-Trump activists look to replicate Chicago success
CHICAGO (AP) — College students, civil rights activists and other opponents of Donald Trump's Republican presidential candidacy are celebrating their success in shutting down his rally Friday night in Chicago.
The question now is whether activists elsewhere — enraged by Trump's heated language on immigrants and minorities— will look to Chicago as a model when it comes to other Trump appearances, such as one scheduled Saturday night in Kansas City, Missouri.
Trump ran into a vibrant community of student activists and civil- and immigrant-rights campaigners that has experience in organizing mass demonstrations and was energized by recent scandals over Chicago police shootings of young black men.
NEW TACTICS
Besides mobilizing a big crowd, the Chicago protesters used some new tactics.
A spokeswoman for Trump says a man tried to breach the security buffer at his event in Dayton, leading Secret Service agents to briefly rush the stage to surround him, but Trump finished his speech without apparent incident.