Protesters gather to rally and march in San Francisco as inauguration day wanes

Protesters gather to rally and march in San Francisco as inauguration day wanes

Gloomy weather and patches of rain weren’t enough to keep roughly 1,000 people from marching through San Francisco on Friday evening, streaming down Market Street after gathering in United Nations Plaza to protest the inauguration of President Trump.

Many of the chants had been modified for the occasion, such as “Trump says get back, we say fight back.”

Participants included John Bournique, 40, an attorney who said it was his first protest since 2002.

The difference now? “There’s this thing, the constitution,” the lawyer said, adding that Trump, in his mind, pays it little mind.

Carrying a distorted drawing of President Trump with “con artist” scrawled above his misshapen head, Bournique said he worries about San Francisco, a sanctuary city, losing federal funding for sticking to its liberal convictions.

[...] in the crowd, the demonstration marked the end of a day of marching and protesting around the Bay Area.

Susan Solomon, executive vice president of the union United Educators of San Francisco, said she spent the morning marching the city’s streets and planned to carry on through the evening and on Saturday as well.

Catherine Jones, 69, lives in Berkeley and said she came to the rally as a form of peaceful protest against what she sees as a worldwide turn to more extreme leaders.

Protestors stopped traffic on Market Street and blocked the Caltrain tracks at 16th and Mississippi streets.