Hours after authorities in Memphis released video of the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a protest Friday night in downtown Los Angeles grew tense, with LAPD officers in riot gear in a showdown with protesters remaining outside department headquarters
Hours after authorities in Memphis, Tenn., released video of the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a protest Friday night in downtown Los Angeles grew tense, with LAPD officers in riot gear in a showdown with about 30 protesters remaining outside department headquarters.
By 10:15 p.m., insults and smoke of indeterminate origin filled the air as demonstrators shook and banged on a police car with an officer sitting inside. About 100 people had gathered outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters earlier Friday evening afterThe protest march grew out of a candlelight vigil for Nichols and
, who died this month after L.A. police pinned him to the ground and discharged a Taser on him at least six times in 42 seconds.A small group of demonstrators has gathered in downtown L.A. for a candlelight vigil for Tyre Nichols and Keenan Anderson, who died in LAPD custody after being repeatedly struck with a TASER earlier this month in another police killing that has drawn intense scrutiny.
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