Protesters expressed their frustrations and anger surrounding the death of George Floyd when they arrived at the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters on May 28 in downtown Los Angeles.
Protests have sparked across the country following George Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The protest, organized by the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, gathered at Circle Park next to City Hall beginning at 4:00 pm.
The group of protesters started small, but more joined as they continued walking around LAPD headquarters, with signs and chants calling for an end of police brutality.
Local resident Yyvete Ramirez had mixed emotions seeing the events that caused the protest to exist.
“It is sad to come out here to support the loss of George Floyd, and we hope we can do better on protesting and not name-calling,” Ramirez said.
The protesters managed to push a barrier down and stopped two California Highway Patrol vehicles, which escaped without visual damage.
Protester Vicente Argueta joined along with other protesters to show his frustrations.
“With everything that is going on with all the killings of innocent men and women is sad, I missed yesterday’s protest and went for this protest to see with all these people,” Argueta said.
More protests were organized the day after and have continued since then.