The group had marched through downtown Los Angeles carrying Black Lives Matter banners and smartphones before gathering at First and Main streets shortly after 8 p.m. Some in the crowd Friday surrounded parked police cars - banging on them and smacking windows - but no arrests were made and most left after being warned by officers at the scene, authorities said. The five Memphis police officers - who are also Black - have since been fired and charged with murder. The Saturday demonstrations were peaceful, but that wasn't entirely the case Friday night, just hours after graphic video was released showing the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on Jan. Of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevards and back to Sunset and Vine.Ī man arrested during the Hollywood demonstration was accused of breaking windows at a bank, Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Satur- day when a group of protesters marched from Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street to the area Saturday afternoon, about 200 demonstrators began walking westbound on Wilshire Boulevard from Sepulveda Boulevard in West LA Traffic in Hollywood was impacted about 8:30 p.m. Shortly before 2 p.m., police said the group in downtown Los Angeles "peacefully exercised their First Amendment Right and dispersed shortly after. that "another group" had gathered in the Hollywood area. "The Los Angeles Police Department remains committed to ensuring all can exercise their First Amendment Right." The flow of traffic has not been affected," the department tweeted at 11:23 a.m. "A small group has gathered in Downtown Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Demonstrators who gathered in downtown Los Angeles, West Long Angeles and Hollywood were largely peaceful as protests continued in respond to the beating death of a 29-year-old Black man by five Memphis police officers, although one person was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism, authorities said.
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