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Crowds gathered outside of the 9th annual Summit of the Americas held at the Convention center in downtown Los Angeles, on Thursday June 9, to protest Abortion rights for Women and peoples of Latin America that are clearly excluded from the summit.
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, an abortion rights activist group based in Los Angeles, California, protest at Dodger Stadium during the 1:00pm game vs. the New York Mets on Sunday, June 5.
On Sunday, March 11, 2021, “White Lives Matter” protestors and “Black Lives Matter” counterprotestors converged in Huntington Beach, California.
It appears as though President Donald Trump’s May 29 proclamation that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” did not have its intended effect.
A group of civil rights advocates including The National Lawyers Guild, Black Lives Matter and Los Angeles Community Action Network are suing the City of Los Angeles, alleging that they violated peoples rights to protest and used excessive force while enforcing curfews last week.
Santa Monica residents helped clean up the mess left by gangs of looters, and within a week, the boarded up storefronts were home to a variety of colorful images, and mostly optimistic messages.
Protests originally forming in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have quickly spread nationwide, as many organized protests continue to take place across Los Angeles county and neighboring cities. Los Angeles protests sparked as early as May 28 and public officials have since called for police and military intervention.
An older black man swept up heaps of shattered glass from the floor of his nail salon. The glass front door of his business had been smashed in the uproar of protesting for justice in the killing of George Floyd that led to property-destructing outbursts in downtown Santa Monica, late Sunday afternoon.
City officials announced curfews effective immediately today until tomorrow morning around the city of Los Angeles. Individuals violating curfew are subject to arrest, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Curfews are subject to change and updated on a day-to-day basis.
Thousands of Abortion rights protestors gathered in downtown Los Angeles, after the Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn the landmark case Roe vs. Wade ending the constitutional protection for abortion rights for women across the nation.