Anti-Trump demonstrators set fires, break windows in California

Updated: November 9, 2016 Published: November 9, 2016

Marchers protest president-elect Donald Trump peacefully in Oakland, California, early Wednesday. A separate group earlier set fire to garbage bins and smashed windows. REUTERS/Noah Berger

OAKLAND, Calif. – Protests against Donald Trump broke out in California's Bay Area late on Tuesday after the Republican candidate won the U.S. presidential election, a Reuters witness and local media reported.

Demonstrators set fire to a likeness of Trump, smashed store front windows and set garbage and tires on fire in downtown Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. A few miles away, University of California Berkeley students protested on campus.

A demonstration also unfolded at the University of California Davis where students blocked streets as they marched and chanted anti-Trump slogans and "You are not America, we are America," according to Twitter posts.

One protester in Oakland was struck by a vehicle after blocking a highway, local media reported.