Iran Press/America: “We don’t want to see your children hurt,” someone announced from a sheriff’s helicopter that circled overhead, urging families to leave so that they were not exposed to pepper spray or tear gas and to protect themselves from troublemakers.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Gardena earlier to demand justice for Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old Latino man fatally shot Thursday by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy. Authorities said Guardado was armed and had fled from deputies, but have not said what prompted the shooting, L.A. Times reported.
“He ran because he was scared,” one of the protesters’ signs read. “Why’d you kill that kid?” the crowd chanted.
People in cars raised their fists in solidarity and honked their horns. Aztec dancers beat drums at the front of the procession.
Protesters marched down West Redondo Beach Boulevard, where Guardado was shot, filling the street as they headed toward the sheriff’s station in Compton over three miles away.
Guardado’s aunt, Edis Abarca, was there with an El Salvador flag wrapped around her body, reflecting the country her family fled because of civil war. She said the family felt “broken.”
In a similar protests, protesters called for racial justice and denounced police brutality in Boston Sunday, as calls for change continue a month after the death of George Floyd.
On Sunday morning, protesters gathered in Roxbury’s Nubian Square for a Father’s Day protest and rally beginning at 10 a.m.
George Floyd, 46, an unarmed black man, died after being pinned down by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, as he was being arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25 after reportedly attempting to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a local store.
His death has prompted largely peaceful mass demonstrations that have continued more than two weeks across the US, though some have devolved into violence and looting.
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