NY police said they arrested about a dozen protesters for shutting down a major city highway.
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In Louisiana, Saturday’s demonstration began at the convenience store where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was killed by police, then fanned out through the state Capitol. Authorities said 21 St. Paul officers and six state troopers were hurt late Saturday and early Sunday during clashes stemming from the police shooting and killing of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man, during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul on Wednesday. She accused police of acting in an “inflammatory” manner and said an officer had pointed a rifle at her and other protesters before her arrest.
An affidavit filed with the warrant, obtained by The Associated Press, provides the most detailed account yet by police of what happened in the deadly altercation with Alton Sterling. “It’s not what we do here in St. Paul”, Turner said. Bowers said she called him from the jail early Sunday.
Several hundred protesters outraged by the police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota took to the streets of San Francisco, blocking several roads and ramps to get on and off the Bay Bridge.
Protests also took place Saturday in Nashville, where protesters briefly blocked a road, and in Indianapolis.
Some chanted “No racist police, no justice, no peace” as rain fell in NY.
Mckesson says that he “was disappointed in the Baton Rouge police, who continue to provoke protesters for peacefully protesting”.
“The officers won’t give their names”, said Brittany Packnett, a co-founder with McKesson of the group Campaign Zero, a prominent activist collective.
“While I appreciate the peaceful intent of this weekend’s rallies, I’d ask that we not put our fellow citizens or law enforcement at risk – which is exactly what attempting to block highways does”, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in a statement.
Moore suggested that “first offenders” and people who may have just “stepped over a line” could have their cases resolved more quickly than those for protesters accused of carrying guns or injuring officers.
A top elected official in Dallas says it appears Thursday’s attack on a protest march was a “crime of opportunity”.
People have been dropping off food and water for those camped out on chairs and blankets in Civic Center Park.
Protesters gathered around the country Saturday.
It was a peaceful protest, part of many such demonstrations around the US this weekend, against the killing of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
More recently, the Bachman shot calls to mind a photograph of activist Maria-Teresa “Tess” Asplund standing alone and confronting several hundred neo-Nazi marchers in Sweden, her fist firmly raised in protest.
Police officers marched alongside the protesters and tried to keep them on the sidewalk.
Police said those arrested ignored repeated orders to stay out of the street, while demonstrators said officers charged into the crowds seemingly without any obvious provocation.
Protester Cynthia Howell said she is not against the police but she wants to see accountability.
Howell is a niece of Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack in 2003 after police threw a concussion grenade into her Harlem apartment.
Media reports suggest that the woman in the picture is one of the people arrested in Baton Rouge.
McKesson, 31, had traveled to Louisiana from Baltimore, where he grew up and returned previous year after the death of a young black man being transported in a police van sparked outrage and riots. Officers were hit with rocks, bottles, concrete, construction materials and fireworks, police said.
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a large group of Black Lives Matter supporters walked to the Broward County Courthouse and then the county jail, where prisoners heard their shouts and tapped on windows in response, WPLG reported.
Police patrol the streets in Louisiana.
Seneca Pender of Middletown organized the rally.
He was one of the Black Lives Matter activists and civil rights leaders who met with President Obama at the White House.
And after a lengthy standoff, more police in full riot gear moved in, pinning some of the protesters as others fled.
The list of those arrested released by the sheriff’s office included two homeless people, and 18 are from out of state.
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“It’s terrifying to be the mother of a black child”, Jessica Lee said. He did a dance in traditional Native American clothing.
