The shocking rise in racial abuse that is sweeping America since Donald Trump was elected President
Police are investigating some of the cases
THE world has been left reeling at the news that Donald Trump will be the next president of the USA.
Violence has erupted across the US in the wake of the shock election result, with reports of hate crimes flooding social media.
Police are investigating claims that minority groups are being targeted following Trump’s victory.
Reports reveal that racially aggressive language was being chanted around campus at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
A Facebook post reads: “Several individuals rushed parts of South Campus, shouting the N-Word in and around residence halls following last night’s election results.
“There is an ongoing investigation about this incident.”
At the Southern Lehigh High School, Principal Christine Siegfried sent home a letter to families following complaints that black pupils were being called “cotton pickers”.
A small group of students were identified as using “extremely inappropriate language”, including yelling homophobic and racially abusive chants across the halls,
Graffiti in Wellsville, New York, centred around a swastika and seemed to find a new meaning in Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, reading: “Make America white again”.
A man also recorded a video where he claimed his car was vandalised and covered in the words Trump and n*****.
As well as the reported crimes, US citizens have been taking to social media to speak out about some of their experiences.
New Yorker Mehreen Kasana alleged that a stranger passed her on a train platform and jibed: “your time’s up girlie”, while designer and photographer Manik Rathee claimed a group of guys yelled at him “time to get out of this country, Apu!”
Others alleged victims have said that they’ve been treated differently since the election result.
Maria Sanchez claims to have found a note from her housemate alongside a pile of dirty laundry.
The letter read: “Hey Maria, Trump won so here’s a little preview of what is to come #wall.”
One woman shared her account that she'd faced discrimination on the bus.
She re-called that a schoolgirl had said to her: "Aren't you supposed to be sitting in the back of the bus now? Like Trump is president!"
In one of the most shocking reports, a woman claims that a man said: “I can’t wait until Trump asks us to rape your people and send you back over the biggest damn wall we’re going to build”.
Social media users have also been in uproar about some graffiti that was spotted on the toilet walls of a high school in Florida.
The disturbing message read: "Y'all black ppl better start picking yall slave numbers - KKK 4 lyfe.
"Go Trump 2016."
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Tensions have reached boiling point in the USA as protesters have demonstrated against the president-elect by burning effigies of Trump and flags of the USA.
As well as a fire being started outside Uber HQ in an anti-Donald Trump protest, thugs carried out a brutal attack on an old man.
A disturbing video showed the ‘Trump supporter’ being battered by a pair of youths as he cowered on the floor.
As well as this, several hundred people flooded on to one of the busiest freeways in Los Angeles causing a miles-long traffic backup in protest of the presidential election of Donald Trump.
The protesters, who had remained peaceful and not overly disruptive for most of the night, poured on to U.S. 101, which links downtown LA to Hollywood and stayed there for most of an hour.