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Hundreds of jubilant protesters chanted victory cries and jeered at glum Donald Trump supporters as they filed out of an auditorium where the Republican presidential candidate abruptly canceled a campaign rally Friday night.
Dozens of UIC faculty and staff had petitioned university administrators to cancel the rally, citing concerns it would create a “hostile and physically dangerous environment.”
Tensions outside rose only after news of the cancellation spread
Outside, the tenor of hours-long protests shifted when one protester passed on word of the cancellation through a megaphone on the campus of the ethnically diverse University of Illinois at Chicago.
The crowd roared in delight and began chanting: “We stopped Trump! We stopped Trump!”
The protesters closed in on the building, obstructing most of the exits just as Trump supporters began filing out.
Trump supporters had little choice but to push through the anti-Trump crowds that parted only slightly, yelling, “Racists go home!”
Trump supporter Bill Tail said he walked through a gauntlet of protesters who cursed at him as he pushed through holding his 9-year-old daughter’s hand. She cried, he said.
Trump supporters Stu and Roberta Aschauer from suburban Warrenville criticized the protesters’ behavior.
“I hear all this free speech crap, but they want to shut down free speech for us,” Stu Aschauer said. “This is unfair, the protesters, the way they are treating us,” added Roberta Aschauer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/protesters-cheer-when-trump-rally-canceled-jeer-supporters/2016/03/11/97e3b820-e809-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html