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    Violence breaks out at Berkeley protest

    by By James Queally, Paige St. John, Benjamin Oreskes and Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2017 4 minutes

    BERKELEY, Calif. _ Thousands of counterprotesters took to the streets of Berkeley on Sunday where they clashed with a handful of President Donald Trump supporters, leading to several violent clashes and at least 14 arrests.

    The mostly peaceful demonstration started heating up about noon at Martin Luther King Civic Center Park, where the two rival groups faced off and several fights broke out.

    Counterdemonstrators vastly outnumbered the president's supporters. They surrounded their rivals and chanted, "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!"

    There were shoving matches around well-known Orange County far-right figure Johnny Benitez. Some screamed "Go home Nazi," as police tried to escort Benitez and Irma

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