Protesters Blocked From MLK Parade After Objecting to Officers Marching in LA

A group of protesters who objected to police officers marching alongside them in the Martin Luther King Jr Day parade in Los Angeles, California, on January 20, were stopped from continuing on by the Los Angeles Police Department. Bicycle officers with the LAPD physically blocked the protesters from continuing to march and escorted them as they left the parade, video shows. Several of the marchers held signs with messages that included the names of other people of color killed in officer-involved shootings and detainment incidents. “Basically it was an MLK parade but they had cops proudly marching in it which is so wrong?? And so we went out in front of the sheriffs marching with signs saying ‘I AM (a name of someone killed by cops)’ like the million man march and they blocked us off here,” Twitter user @sunshntemptress wrote. Credit: @sunshntemptress via Storyful

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