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Day 7: Anti-Racism Protests Continue Around LA

By  LAist Staff
Published Jun 2, 2020 4:45 PM
Tim Russ, an actor who played Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on "Star Trek: Voyager," holds a sign during a protest at Sunset and Vine, on June 2. (Emily Elena Dugdale/LAist)
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On Day 7 of nationwide demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Angelenos continued to show in large numbers to protest racism and police brutality.

Tuesday's largest demonstrations took place in downtown L.A. and Hollywood, where one report estimated a line of marchers a mile long. In the late afternoon, another group of protestors converged in Hancock Park at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Here's what happened Tuesday. You can use the tabs below for shortcuts:

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Protestors gather outside Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's house, in the Hancock Park neighborhood, on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 2. (Libby Denkmann/LAist)
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HANCOCK PARK

Reporters Libby Denkmann and Mike Roe are near the corner of 6th St. and S. Irving Blvd. in Hancock Park, one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and home to the official mayoral residence. This stealth protest was organized by Black Lives Matter, which Denkmann reports "kept this action under wraps all day. They held a training nearby to emphasize peaceful methods of resistance."

Denkmann said that a police officer estimated the number of protestors at "a couple thousand."

6:30 p.m. Organizers officially call an end to the protest in Hancock Park.


6:27 p.m. Police officers take a knee next to protestors.


5:21 p.m.


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Demonstrators take a knee during a protest in Hollywood on Tuesday, June 2. (Giuliana Mayo/LAist)
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Reporters Emily Elena Dugdale and Matt Tinoco are at the scene.

Sean Keel, 25, came out -- along with hundreds of others -- to Sunset and Vine at around noon. She was carrying a sign with a quote that read, "Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you're protesting America."

Keel told Dugdale she is there to support anyone who has been victimized by police brutality and to honor "the lives of people who have been unjustifiably killed by the cops. We just want peace ... We don't want to cause a riot. We don't want to loot. We just want our voices heard."

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Protestors chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot."

Tim Russ, 63, led one of those chants. Russ, an actor who played Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, said he has a pre-existing conditiong and is concerned about coronavirus, but said he felt comeplled to come out and protest:

"This is record-breaking. This has never been seen before. I was around during the civil rights and Vietnam riots, and this is nothing like them at all. This is seven or eight days, almost worldwide, of consistent nationwide protests. This is a serious cause. We're seeing a literal reovlution culturally happening before our eyes. Things are going to change, I think, overnight. And this is going to make a huge impact on it, wake people up to what's going on."

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4:03 p.m.

DOWNTOWN L.A.

Protestors in downtown L.A. (Chava Sanchez/LAist)
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Organized by The Baptist Ministers Conference, this march started at 10 a.m. and was supposed to end at LAPD headquarters. "This is a symbol of unity. We will raise the value of black life. Please come or pray," organizers wrote in a Facebook post.

At 2:27 p.m. Mayor Eric Garcetti took a knee to show solidarity with protestors. National Guard members also took a knee.

Rev. K.W. Tulloss, president of the Baptist Minister's Conference of Southern California, spoke to KPCC this afternoon and said he appreciated the gesture:

"Not only did he take a knee at the rally, he invited those [from] the organizing committee to come and have a brief meeting with him. And he listened to many of our concerns, one being about the city's [proposed] budget."

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