Video and photos by Amanda LaCasse.
Demonstrators rallied around the First Fridays artwalk zone in downtown Phoenix Friday night to protest against police brutality, after a wave of recent national police-involved shootings and jury decisions.
The protest was organized by a local self-proclaimed anarchist group who said they were rallying against alleged police brutality. Calls of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” were heard as the demonstrators walked up and down Roosevelt Street from Central Avenue to Seventh Street. Many lay down on the ground as well in a form of solidarity for the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and other African Americans in the center of police-involved deaths. The protesters were involved in small confrontations with members of the Phoenix Police Department, who used masks and riot shields and threatened with the possibility of arrest.
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