Syracuse, NY -- A coalition of racial justice groups is holding a large protest Saturday in downtown Syracuse as demonstrations against police brutality continue here and in cities across the nation.
More than 2,000 people have gathered outside Syracuse City Hall.
We have reporters and photographers live at the scene. The protest started at 1 p.m. Check back to this page on Syracuse.com for live updates. We also are livestreaming the rally:
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2:20 p.m.: The temperature has reached 78 degrees, with generally sunny skies with some clouds.
2:10 p.m.: Speaker tells crowd to shout “Black lives matter’ loud enough that they can here us at the jail.” The Justice Center jail is several blocks south of the rally.
1:55 p.m.: The crowd has swelled to an estimate of more than 2,000. This is what it looks like.
This is the crowd outside Syracuse City Hall about an hour into a rally against police brutality on Saturday, June 6, 2020.Samantha House | shouse@syracuse
1:45 p.m.: Two drones now flying overhead, believed to be operated by police. (Downtown is a no-fly zone for commercial and personal drones.)
1:35 p.m.: A group of Syracuse police officers, member of the public order unit, have entered city hall through a side or back entrance.
1:30 pm.: The director of the Syracuse chapter of the ACLU tells protesters how impactful their work can be. But more change is needed, he said.
1:25 p.m.: Nitch Jones, a local activist, speaks to supporting young people in Syracuse as they fought for the changes they want to see. Ends with a chant of Young Lives Matter.
1:20 p.m.: "We also deserve black joy,” one organizer said. “We deserve deserve to laugh. To deserve to make music.”
1:15 p.m.: Speakers have started.
A Syracuse student speaks about police officers and police dogs searching through her school. She said it made her school feel like a crime scene. “I’m here to tell people this isn’t normal.”
Protesters at one point each raise a fist in the air, leading into a chant of “I believe that we will win."
1:10 p.m.: The crowd has grown, with orqanizers estimating more than 1,000 people now outside city hall.
Before 1 p.m.: Hundreds of people have started to gather outside city hall. A voter registration tent is set up.
A police helicopter is flying above. A drone was spotted flying over the crowd too. Police are hanging back.
The crowd is a mix of adults, teens and children and people of all races. The rally began with music as the crowd, as one raised signs and fists in the air.
Protesters outside Syracuse City Hall on Saturday, June 6, 2020.Chris Carlson | ccarlson@syracuse.com
It has been seven days since daily protests started in Syracuse.
Last Saturday, more than 500 people rallied and marched for seven peaceful hours.
After dark, the scene turned destructive, with some people damaging 25 businesses and leading to looting at a least a half-dozen. That led to a short-lived curfew and an ongoing citywide state of emergency.
Protest planners and police each prepared well in advance of today’s demonstration. It’s part of the national outcry after George Floyd, a black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.
On Friday afternoon, concrete barriers blocked off several major roads downtown, while temporary chain-link fencing surrounded certain government buildings that were damaged during the protest a week ago.
East Washing St. is blocked at S. Warren St. and guarded by a New York State Trooper as Syracuse prepares for an estimated two-thousand people at "The Fight Against Police Terror" Rally on Saturday, Syracuse, N.Y., Friday June 5, 2020. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.comScott Schild | sschild@syracuse.
Since that first protest in Syracuse, in which neither police nor protesters suffered any known serious injuries, crowds have continued their daily demonstrations downtown, with no violent police confrontations.
But protesters haven’t stopped showing up. And Saturday, police and planners are expecting the largest crowd to date.
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