at least three cities reported acts of vandalism thursday and a dozen people were arrested in richmond, va., after protests against the election of donald trump as president. three confederate statues in richmond were sprayed with graffiti after hundreds of people marched wednesday night, authorities said. the crowd blocked the streets near virginia commonwealth university. online video showed marchers chanting, <u+201c>no trump. no kkk. no fascist usa,<u+201d> and carrying banners reading, <u+201c>not my president.<u+201d> troopers responded to interstate 95 around 10 p.m. and guided a large group of protesters off the highway, state police said. more than an hour later, troopers were called to the downtown expressway, where protesters sat in lanes and many refused to leave. around midnight, troopers arrested four men and six women between the ages of 20 and 26 and charged them with unlawful assembly and being pedestrians on an interstate, according to the statement. richmond police arrested two more people on the opposite side of the road who will face the same charges, the department said. no arrests had been made in connection with the damage to statues along the city<u+2019>s monument avenue, which authorities believe were tagged during the protests. <u+201c>your vote was a hate crime<u+201d> was painted on a statue of confederate president jefferson davis. also tagged were statues of confederate general robert e. lee and naval officer and oceanographer matthew fontaine maury. the statues were being cleaned thursday. the headquarters of the republican party of virginia was also vandalized during the protest, chairman john whitbeck said in a statement. tv station wwbt reported the doorbell was broken and graffiti was painted on the building. a police spokeswoman said no one had filed a report about the vandalism. in new orleans, windows were broken at a downtown building and anti-trump slogans were spray-painted on some structures, including the base of a statue of confederate gen. robert e. lee, during a march involving several dozen people wednesday night. in raleigh, n.c., banners on the front of the north carolina republican party headquarters, including one celebrating mr. trump<u+2019>s victory, were shredded. thousands of people protested the president-elect across the nation on wednesday night , even though many supporters of democratic candidate hillary clinton were appalled last month when mr. trump suggested during the campaign that he might not accept the election results if he lost. scattered protests continued thursday, with hundreds marching in philadelphia, baltimore, new york and grand rapids, mich. in new york, a large group of demonstrators gathered for a second night outside trump tower on fifth avenue, chanting angry slogans and waving signs reading <u+201c>not my president<u+201d> and <u+201c>divided states of america.<u+201d> police said dozens of the protesters were arrested wednesday. about 500 people turned out in louisville, ky., chanting and carrying signs as they marched downtown. <u+2014>copyright 2016 the associated press
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