5 arrested during rowdy anti-Trump protests in Houston

UH senior Kaylin Richard shouts during a Houston protest on Thursday against the election of Donald Trump. UH senior Kaylin Richard shouts during a Houston protest on Thursday against the election of Donald Trump. Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 24 Caption Close 5 arrested during rowdy anti-Trump protests in Houston 1 / 24 Back to Gallery

Five anti-Trump demonstrators in downtown Houston were arrested Thursday as a raucous mass of more than 100 wound through the streets around City Hall and squared off with mounted police.

Jittery horses came dangerously close to trampling unruly protesters who surged out into the street at the corner of Travis and Preston early on in the more than two hour drum-banging, sign-waving march.

Angry chants echoed down McKinney Street as the protesters gathered outside City Hall at 7 p.m., shouting, "F–- Trump," and, "Hey Trump, you liar, we're here to say you're fired."

Speakers revved up the crowd before heading out for a rowdy march.

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"You know what won on November 8th? Not Donald Trump. White supremacy won," said Black Lives Matter leader Ashton Woods, 31.

Bryan Sweeney, another speaker, launched into a bilingual speech slamming Trump's immigration policies.

"It will be a cold day in hell before Donald Trump removes one Latino from Harris County," he said.

Some activists recounted stories they say show an uptick in racist outbursts just since Tuesday's election.

"My 13-year-old daughter was told by white boy to go back to Africa. She is biracial. She is innocent in all of this and throughout the nation I am seeing a flood of information of people being targeted," activist Sheree Dore told the Chronicle.

As the crowd grew, protesters began marching through the city, followed closely by a throng of mounted police and officers on foot.

As they reached Travis and Preston, some marchers advocated disobeying the officers' orders and spilling out into the street.

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Mounted police pushed against the crowd, nearly stepping on some protesters who didn't keep to the curb. Over the course of the evening, five protesters were arrested but the charges were not immediately clear.

After a few minutes of chaos and shouting in the intersection, the marchers moved on.

"F--- that Cheeto," chanted one angry protester, as they marched down the street.

Some bystanders clapped and high-fived the crowd, while one decidedly nervous-looking woman shouted at the marchers, "Just accept it!"

Eventually, the protest settled outside of Houston police headquarters, where speakers addressed the crowd, denouncing everything from racism to student debt to police brutality.

As the evening wound down, the scent of smoke wafted into the air when an indigenous woman made her way through the crowd, smudging as she walked.