Fueled by continued outrage over the death of George Floyd, thousands of people spilled onto the streets of Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday evening.
Sunday’s crowds — particularly in Hollywood — were massive, showing little let-up in the most widespread national protests in the United States in generations.
One estimate in Hollywood was at 10,000 people. But others estimated it at 20,000 to 30,000 — possibly surpassing the size of a protest that weaved through Hollywood streets all day earlier in the week.
In the shadow of the landmark Capitol Records Building, at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, a demonstration organized by Black Lives Matter, stopped traffic on streets filled with people. Public buses were stopped.
Most of the protesters were young. But there were older faces in the crowd as they marched along Hollywood streets — determined but peaceful.
Many held up signs with what have become several-day’s worth of imagery designed to send the message that a moment as arrived in American history to end historic disparities: “No More Silence.” “BLM.” “Say Her Name” — referring to Breonna Taylor, the medical worker in Kentucky who was killed by police during a search.
And the memory of George Floyd — the black man who died on Memorial Day after a Minnesota police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several months — only swelled on the streets of Hollywood. Same in Downtown L.A., where a demonstration at City Hall was joined nearby when a caravan of vehicles, also a form of protest, rolled into Hollywood.
No arrests had been reported as of 6 p.m., as the crowd headed west, passing Hollywood landmarks and boarded up businesses.
The giant crowd emerged rapidly late Sunday afternoon after a day of peaceful and smaller crowds but at cities and towns all over the region.
Pasadena, Glendale, Pomona, Compton, among others all saw protests. But the mammoth Hollywood crowd had some speculating it was the largest one yet.
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