See this protest is on the move. We are in downtown martinez, and we have 700 people, perhaps more than 1000 gathered in the downtown streets. This is the black lives matter rally. You can see from topper five it is a significant crowd marching to this town of 30,000 people. Why are they here . Many of the protesters said they were compelled to come to martinez after a video went viral. It shows a white couple painting over a black lives matter street sign. The couple has since been charged with three misdemeanors, including a hate crime charge. This is not happening in my town. She was going on about kerrtown. This is our town. There are minorities in it and the town needs to start taking some sort of stance one way or the other to make it very clear where its values lie. Orr t w,what is going on is they have gathered at the courthouse. They are moving down to the waterfront of martinez. This is a peaceful protest, as it has been all along. As a matter of fact, demonstrators have been
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Right away, take a look. A black lives matter protest is under way in martin. Sky 7 overhead as we speak. Now, the city is tense after several racist incidents in recent weeks and police have been warning about the possibility of violent counterprotesters tonight. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Issues of race and social justice are something were especially focused on here at abc 7 as part of ow efforts to build a better bay area. The protest started an hour ago and they plan to end up near the waterfront near the superior court building. Cornell barnard is there live right now. Cornell, how has it been so far . So far so good, eric. That group is braving extreme heat out here in martinez. They are on the move through the streets of downtown marching towards the waterfront. The black lives matter march started about 45 minutes ago. Several hundred people showed up and it quickly grew to several thousand. Within a couple minutes there was
In a video a white couple for martinez deface a black lives matter mural outside the courthouse. They charge them with vandalism. Organizers say they have been getting threats. Weve been getting threats regularly that people are going to come to town. This march. Marchers have their own security teams. Police called an outside Law Enforcement agencies for support. They said well several officers will be on hand there would not be visible to demonstrators unless needed. So far relearned of only a minor shouting competition between demonstrators and just one man. There have been no reports of violence. Vegetation fire at a homeless and cameron earned about 15 acres this afternoon and sent a large plume of smoke over the city. The flames spread quickly on the hillside but this didnt take long for crews to get the fire under control. Investigators are still trying to figure out what started the fire. That fire broke out in triple digits each. This is one of the many areas with hot and dry
Organizations that are against black lives matter. I will be down here as a scare tactic. We are not afraid. We refuse to be afraid. We are going to come down and march. We are going to make sure our voices are heard. Reporter folks are in fact, quite excited to be here. This has been, as i mentioned peaceful, but also in the air was a warning from the police chief from yesterday, as he was told that on social media there would be people coming here that might try to defend the police. As far as we could tell, that did not develop. We have not seen any counterdemonstrators in this crowd. Right now, the biggest danger is the heat. It is in the high 90s in martinez as this peaceful demonstration continues. In martinez, thank you. To San Francisco where one person is dead and another injured in a house fire that happened after 11 00 on sacramento street. Authorities say the victim was injured in the fire and is expected to be okay. No word tonight on the cause. The other big story we are