Los Angeles vigil for Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson turns into protest - Los Angeles Times
LAPD officers in riot gear face off with protesters after release of Tyre Nichols video The protest march grew out of a candlelight vigil for Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police, and Keenan Anderson, who Los Angeles TimesHours after authorities in Memphis, Tenn., released video of the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a protest Friday night in downtown Los Angeles grew tense, with LAPD officers in riot gear in a showdown with about 30 protesters remaining outside department headquarters.
By 8:50 p.m., under the reflective letters spelling out “Los Angeles Police Department” on the front of its compound near City Hall, someone had spray-painted in red the word “kills.”