Anti-Trump march kicks off final day of Republican convention
July 22, 2016  02:24
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About 150 protesters carrying signs saying 'Ban All Trumps Not Muslims' and chanting 'Love Trumps Hate' marched across a Cleveland bridge on Thursday afternoon as the four-day GOP convention neared its prime-time finale.

The protest by a group called Stand Together Against Trump drew little notice outside a heavy police presence. Officers on rooftops watched through binoculars, while police on bicycles pedaled along the streets with no other traffic.

The anti-Donald Trump forces scheduled an evening rally in downtown's Public Square that was expected to draw a bigger crowd. Trump was set to accept his party's nomination on Thursday night.

The demonstrators, in sweltering heat pushing above 90 degrees, dutifully followed the city's designated route for protest marches.

"Trump is trying to use the moment to divide us. He's trying to use the moment to gain personal power," said march organiser Bryan Hambley, a Cleveland doctor.

Officers got between the marchers and a few conservative religious counter-protesters to make sure no skirmishes broke out.
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