The Latest: Hundreds turned away from Trump rally in OC

COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Latest on the scene outside Donald Trump’s rally in Southern California (all times local):

9:30 p.m.

Authorities have declared an unlawful assembly and at least one person has been taken into custody as protesters and others block streets outside Donald Trump’s rally in Orange County.

The front and back windows of one police car were smashed as protesters and others grew increasingly unruly in the aftermath of Trump’s speech on Thursday night.

At one point a fistfight broke out when someone grabbed the hat of a Trump supporter who tried to get it back. The man’s nose was bleeding badly afterward.

At its peak the crowd was in the hundreds. Later dozens remained in the streets and dozens of cars were stopped with their engines off as they waited.

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8:45 p.m.

Hundreds of people, many of them protesters against Donald Trump, have blocked an intersection outside Trump’s rally in Orange County.

Dozens of cars were stuck as the crowd flooded the street, chanted and waved flags just after the Thursday night Trump rally at the Pacific Amphitheatre. Trump supporters were also in the mix and many other people milled on the surrounding sidewalks.

Police in riot gear and other officers on horseback tried to sweep the crowd out of the street and let traffic flow.

There were no reports of any violence or arrests.

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7:45 p.m.

The Pacific Amphitheatre in Orange County is filled to its capacity of about 18,000 for Donald Trump’s rally in Southern California.

Many hundreds more were turned away and couldn’t get into the campaign event on Thursday night.

Several dozen protesters remained outside chanting anti-Trump slogans as the candidate took the stage at about 7:40 p.m. for the event scheduled for 7 p.m.

Police on horseback put themselves between the protesters and Trump supporters who chanted his name.

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5:30 p.m.

Thousands of Donald Trump fans gathered outside an Orange County amphitheatre some two hours before the doors even opened for his campaign speech in Orange County.

Some drove an hour or more to get to the venue Thursday for a glimpse of the man they described as a patriot, business wizard and astute negotiator.

Vendors hawked Trump-themed T-shirts, visors, pins and Trump bobble-head figurines, while activists set up stands to help register voters.

At one point a man carrying a Mexican flag and several other anti-Trump demonstrators wearing expletive-laden anti-Trump shirts approached a line of the candidate’s supporters waiting to get into a rally and began taunting them.

Trump supporters reacted by surrounding them and shouted “Build that wall!” ”Build that wall!” before one man directly began arguing with the anti-Trump protester holding the flag as reporters gathered around.

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2 p.m.

Donald Trump is bringing his campaign to Orange County, where thousands are expected to hear him speak and detractors plan to protest.

Trump, fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern primaries, is courting California voters hoping to lock up the Republican nomination with the state’s June 7 primary.

The billionaire businessman is scheduled to speak Thursday evening at an amphitheatre on the Orange County Fairgrounds.

A Trump campaign staffer says supporters started lining up at midday.

Local Democrats are planning to protest. Earlier this week pro- and anti-Trump groups scuffled in Anaheim.

Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Mark Stichter says as many as 10,000 people could show up for the event and to protest.

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