In Minneapolis, protesters blocked a highway, leading to arrests. In Portland, hundreds gathered on the boardwalk to protest the president’s attempts to intervene in the vote count while a separate group protesting police and urging racial justice emerged downtown, smashing shop windows and confronting officials from the police and National Guard troops.
In Phoenix, around 150 pro-Trump protesters, some of them armed, gathered outside the county recorder’s office where a vote count was taking place that could help determine the outcome of the election.
At various points, protesters argued that Adrian Fontes, the county official who oversees elections in Maricopa County, did not incorrectly count some ballots and cost him Trump’s votes in Arizona’s most populous county, although there was no evidence that no ballot was cast incorrectly.
Protesters also gathered in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere, some of them continuing the protests for racial justice and policing that have rocked the country since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
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