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Major cities on the West Coast were among those seeing riots and protests Saturday night as demonstrators marked the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death in a police raid in Louisville, Kentucky.
Taylor was killed as police returned gunfire from her boyfriend.
Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland all saw clashes between crowds and police, with numerous arrests being made, Fox News reported.
In Los Angeles, some demonstrators smashed store windows and threw rocks at police officers in Hollywood.
Social media videos showed police officers in riot gear near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street near the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One social media video showed a protester jumping on a police cruiser as it sped away.
Arrests
⢠Raiford Scott Lane, 35, 925 John Buck McCoy Road was charged Feb. 26 for fleeing or evading police, failure to signal, driving with a suspended license and bondsman off bond.
Moultrie Police Department
Arrests
⢠Jeffrey Jason Leak, 47, 716 East Laffeyette St., Quitman, was charged Feb. 26 with probation violation
⢠James Blake Williams, 34, 450 Oak Ave., was charged Feb. 28 with failure to drive in a single lane, hit and run and D.U.I.
⢠Anthony Jordan Mock, 22, 1446 Woodmen Road, was charged Feb. 28 with failure to appear, probation violation and failure to stop at stop sign.
⢠Nanette Laureen Pace, 49, 1406 Tree Farm Road, was charged Feb. 28 with open container and possession of cocaine.
They were arrested while covering protests last year. They’re still in legal limbo.
On June 1, as protests intensified across the US following the police killing of George Floyd, Richard Cummings, a freelance photojournalist in Worcester, Massachusetts, saw dozens of police officers assembling in riot gear, even though the day’s main demonstration had wound down. He started to film them and take pictures. “Worcester’s never had anything with riot gear before,” Cummings told me recently. “It looks like the end of the world. It was crazy.” A few officers, Cummings said, were cracking jokes, including about shooting members of the public with their pepper guns; eventually, they noticed Cummings, who turned away. “I didn’t want to pry into anything, or get anyone angry,” he said. A different officer had given Cummings permission to stand nearby after he identified himself as a journalist, but after that officer moved on, the cops that Cummings had been filming tackle