PHOTOS: Both sides of Trump debate clash " Some say free speech and there is some free speech issues but on the other hand majority are very antagonistic", one protester said. Police also arrested at least 21 people.
Pushing her walker, Karin Arlin, 85, a Holocaust survivor who came to the US from Germany when she was 9, said she's also anxious about the direction of the country.
The rallies appeared to be separate from the dozens of protests in cities throughout the country calling on President Donald Trump to release his personal tax returns as part of a nationwide Tax March.
"They hit me twice while I was down, it was sad", David Fry, also from Washington and pro-Trump, said.
According to TMZ, a group of anti-Trump protesters marching for Tax Day, in an effort to get the president to release his taxes, reportedly clashed at Martin Luther King Jr.
As a result of the protests, which spread from the park to the streets, Berkeley's downtown BART station has been closed down.
Demonstrators have left the park and are walking on Berkeley streets while police closely follow them.
Seven people were transported to the hospital in unknown condition, Berkeley Police spokesman Byron White told CNN, after "a large number of fights" and "numerous fireworks have been thrown in the crowds", according to a statement. Bloc Party & Cookout counter-demonstration was set to take place two hours before the Free Speech Rally - scheduled for noon - though attendees of both events were in the park by 10 a.m.
Washington knew Pyongyang would test another ballistic missile
He also said his country was ready for war with the us and that it was also capable of a pre-emptive strike of its own. Despite warnings from multiple countries, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un authorized a nuclear test this weekend.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer). Demonstrators participate in a march and rally to demand President Donald Trump release his tax returns, Saturday, April 15, 2017, in NY. Protesters say Americans deserve to know about Trump's potential conflicts of interest.
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On Saturday, that behavior was on full display as a white supremacist was captured on video punching a female protestor in the face.
Demonstrators in support of U.S. President Donald Trump rally in Berkeley, California in Berkeley, California, U.S., April 15, 2017.
City officials imposed a one-day rule for the protest.
She says there's nothing to prevent Trump from releasing his income taxes and that "the simple truth is he's got a lot to hide".
For decades, USA presidents and presidential candidates have released their returns voluntarily, although there is no legal obligation to do so. They note that Trump is the first president in four decades who has refused to make his tax returns public, meaning there is no transparency into the sources of his income, debts and how much he's paid in taxes.
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