A crowd of thousands of anti-Trump protesters gathered Thursday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and then filled Flatbush Avenue for a peaceful march to the Prospect Park West home of Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat.
While the group went to the building of mr. Schumer was on his way, protesters shouted: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA”, accompanied by the rhythms of drummers and percussionists.
Several people in the crowd said they were moved to brave the cold night after meeting the supporters of Mr. Trump has seen.
“What we saw was incredibly frustrating and tragic, and a lot of people are looking for direction,” said Nina Svirsky, a Brooklyn teacher.
Dozens of masked, uniformed police officers watched the protest; no arrests were reported. After most of the crowd melted away, the talks among those on the left specifically focused on the serious racial differences in the control and application of the crowd displayed on Wednesday.
“If it was us, we would have really been beaten, so we’m upset about it,” said Alfred Martinez, 39, a black man who said he came from the Bronx.
In Manhattan, a much smaller group gathered in Times Square, where members of Refuse Fascism, an activist organization, put up a banner with the hashtag “#OutNow!” Unfold. and called for President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be removed from office.
“We are out here today because what we saw yesterday was an attempted coup,” one of the organizers of the protest, Jennifer Sabel, said through a loudspeaker.
Sabel noted that those who were there noticed the modest size of the crowd to return Saturday and take others along for what she hopes would be a national day of protest. The protest ended after about an hour.
Emma Kaplan, another organizer of Refuse Fascism, said she and her countrymen did not feel they could just take their time until Pres. Joseph R. Biden Jr. later this month the successor of mr. Trump was not.
“The next 13 days, what we are doing now, is going to determine the future,” she said. Kaplan said. “We have to be out and not hope that it will resolve itself, because yesterday actually showed where it is leading.”