Trump supporters clash with protesters at a "Patriots Day" free speech rally on Saturday in Berkeley, California.
Hundreds of people gathered at a park, including Trump supporters who held a free-speech rally, while opponents of the president's policies shouted and chanted.
People from both groups used improvised weapons, including sticks and empty Pepsi cans filled with concrete, to harm opponents.
The media, citing the police, reported that at least 11 people were injured.
The moment a man identified as Nathan Damigo punches an unidentified woman at a protest in Berkeley, Calif. on April 15, 2017.
"We're going to review any surveillance video recordings from the area, as well as videos the public sends in to us, and perhaps send out arrest warrants for those people as well", Berkeley police spokesman Byron White told CNN.
Daryl Tempesta, 52, who said he served in the US Air Force near the end of the Cold War, went to the rally to show his support for Trump.
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An anti-Trump protester named Geoff Millard said the rallies by pro-Trump campaigners were meant to intimidate the other side.
Police had erected a light, neon-orange plastic barricade between the two sides to separate the groups and were collecting sticks, flagpoles and other objects that protesters had brought, which were banned at the park in advance of the protest.
But Stephanie Edd, also of Berkeley, viewed the protest as an attempt "to co-opt the history of free speech".
In a statement, Berkeley police said officers confiscated dozens of weapons, including a stun gun, mace, knives, bear spray, an ax handle, pepper spray and a can filled with concrete.
Tens of thousands of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of United States cities on Saturday to demand Trump release his tax returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care about the issue. On March 4, a mixed crowd of about 500 pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators similarly became violent.
In February, protesters threw rocks, broke windows and set fires outside the University of California, Berkeley's student union building, where then-Breitbart News editor and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak. "It's a challenge for us to keep that amount of demonstrators inside that area with the amount of people we had".
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