Photos: 2 Arrested As Hundreds Return To The Loop To Protest Trump Presidency

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Nov 13, 2016 2:34PM

For the fourth time since Donald Trump, accused racist, admitted groper of women, was elected president of the United States on Wednesday, Chicago protesters gathered in the Loop Saturday morning to protest the election outcome.

As they have in previous days, the protesters chanted "not my president," and carried signs with slogans such as "Love will change the world bigly" and "Hands off my country," while snarling traffic through Chicago's busy downtown streets.

Over a thousand people joined in the protests, which were meant to express dissatisfaction with Trump's election and solidarity with protesters around the country who have also been organizing. Two were arrested for obstructing traffic, police told the Tribune; one officer told the Tribune that the protest was peaceful:

“[It went] fantastically,” said Chicago police Lt. Godfrey Cronin, who was stationed at Federal Plaza around 3 p.m. “A bunch of young people got together, they didn’t know each other, they controlled the crowd wonderfully and everybody peacefully protested, got their message out.”

The bulk of the group marched from just before 11 a.m. to around 2 p.m. after linking up with another group of protesters protesting the high-profile and controversial Dakota Access Pipeline that would destroy Native American land.