Violence Breaks Out at Trump Rally in San Jose

Donald Trump's rally in San Jose, California, Thursday night was marred by violence by anti-Trump supporters, who targeted the event's attendees.

Trump's foes surrounded the San Jose Convention Center, where scuffles broke out between them and Trump supporters. Some of the altercations were physical, resulting in bloody injuries, as depicted in the video below.

Some anti-Trump protesters also surrounded the car of a presumed Trump supporter as the vehicle was leaving the convention center's garage. Protesters were shaking the car, and smashed its taillight. Protesters also surrounded police cars, also banging those vehicles.

Attendees of the rally heading back to their cars were egged, followed and intimidated by some of the anti-Trump protesters. At one point, a large group of protesters surrounded a Trump supporter, throwing bottles and spitting at him as he walked back to his vehicle.

Police, who appeared to be extremely strained in terms of their resources, instructed the protesters to vacate the area and declared the protesters' activity as unlawful assembly. Police instructed protesters over loud speakers to return home, but at one point, between 100 and 200 protesters remained, taunting riot gear-wearing police.

Before the violence outside the convention center kicked into high gear, rally-goers listened to the presumptive Republican nominee go after Hillary Clinton, just hours after the Democratic presidential hopeful gave a long speech on foreign policy Trump described as "pathetic."

"I watched Hillary today, it was pathetic," Trump said. "It was pathetic. It was so sad to watch and you know she’s up there and supposed to be a foreign policy speech, it was a political speech."

The drum beat of Trump’s attacks on the former Secretary of State have only grown louder in the last several weeks, as he also targets her husband, former President Bill Clinton and President Obama. "Anything Obama wants she’s going forward with because you know why? She doesn’t want to go to jail that’s why folks,” Trump said. "Bill Clinton hated [Obama.] And Hillary Clinton hated Obama. The only reason she’s behaving like this, and the only reason she’s been dragged so far left, believe me, is she doesn’t want to go to jail over the emails, okay? Believe me. That’s the only reason."

Trump’s rally comes on the heals of a controversial comment he made to the Wall Street Journal Thursday afternoon regarding Judge Gonzalo Curiel who is presiding over a civil case against Trump and former students of the now-shuttered Trump University.

Trump said the judge should recuse himself from the case because he has "an absolute conflict" because he is "of Mexican heritage." But Trump attempted to endear himself to Hispanics, when he spotted a certain sign among the sea of supporters. "Latinos for Trump, that’s what I like -- I love that," he said. "Latinos! We’re doing well with the Latinos. Nobody knows about it yet. We’re bringing so many jobs in, you watch what happens. The Hispanics, we love the Hispanics!”

ABC News' Tom Llamas and Alex Stone contributed to this report.

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