A crowd of roughly 100 gathered exterior Los Angeles Police Division headquarters Friday evening in protest of the Memphis police beating of Tyre Nichols.
The protest noticed LAPD officers in riot gear face off in opposition to the group, with one protester lobbing a firecracker at a patrol automotive. Later, a crowd banged on a police automotive with an officer inside.
The protests adopted the discharge by Memphis police of video footage of Nichols’ beating dying by the hands of police there.
Metallic barricades surrounded the LAPD headquarter, however had been finally torn down by the group.
Elsewhere, protests had been seen in New York, Atlanta, Memphis, Portland, Oregon, Philadelphia, Boston and Seattle. Companies boarded up home windows and a few federal staff had been despatched house early in anticipation of unrest later within the night
