Protesters took to the streets of several U.S. cities for a second night on Saturday following the fatal police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and the deadly sniper attack on police officers in Dallas.
Here are some of the developments in the latest protests:
Louisiana activist arrested
Louisiana authorities say prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, 31, was arrested during a protest in Baton Rouge.
Witnesses say he dropped his phone during the arrest and they retrieved it and continued to videotape the incident. They say police were arresting people, telling them they were “being flagged” for straying onto the road. McKesson was walking alongside Airline Highway when he was arrested.
Protesters were demonstrating against the shooting death Tuesday of 37-year-old Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. The protests lasted well into the evening but died down a little after midnight.
Highway blocked Minnesota
Police used smoke bombs to clear demonstrators blocking Interstate 94 in St. Paul.
It’s a party on Highway 94! BlackLivesMatterMPLS has shut it down!!#BlackLivesMatter #PhilandoCastile pic.twitter.com/SWSGcKlDKx
The smoke was used just after midnight Saturday when about 200 protesters were in the roadway as police in riot gear slowly moved in.
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The St. Paul Police Department tweeted that arrests were made, but didn’t indicate how many, and said at least five officers suffered non-serious injuries when hit by rocks, firecrackers and bottles thrown by protesters.
Activist Jason Sole speaks at a Black Lives Matter rally in Loring Park in Minneapolis on Saturday. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)
A leader on a loudspeaker urged the group to march to the governor’s mansion, where protesters have gathered since the fatal police shooting Wednesday night of Philando Castile. The 32-year-old black man was shot during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul. Police said the interstate reopened early Sunday morning.
U.K. demonstrations
In London, Oxford Street was shut down near Oxford Circus for a Black Lives Matter march.
Protesters stopped outside the U.S. embassy before moving through Hyde Park and Regent Street.
Oxford Circus Traffic has been blocked. We stand together as one. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/pb2YjcOZPl
We are posted outside the American embassy. We will continue to fight. #blacklivesmatter #blacklivesmatterlondon ?? pic.twitter.com/SJJuhefLM5
San Francisco roads blocked
Several hundred protesters outraged by the police killings of black men in the U.S. took to the streets of San Francisco, blocking several roads and ramps to get on and off the Bay Bridge.
The California Highway Patrol closed access to the bridge at least two times Saturday afternoon when protesters took over freeway ramps, causing traffic to back up. The group began marching from the city’s Hall of Justice to the downtown shopping area, causing a temporary shutdown of a popular mall as the crowd gathered there to chant slogans and make speeches.
In central California, several hundred protesters blocked several intersections as they marched against police brutality in central Fresno. Officers in riot gear blocked an on-ramp to keep the protesters from entering State Route 41.
Colorado sit-in
Black Lives Matter supporters said they plan to continue a sit-in in Denver in response to the police shootings through Tuesday for a total of 135 hours. That’s an hour for each of the black people they say have been killed by police across the country this year.
The gathering, across from the City and County Building, began Thursday afternoon, several hours before police officers were killed in Dallas.
People have been dropping off food and water for those camped out on chairs and blankets in Civic Center Park.
Peaceful Florida protests
Hundreds of people marched in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale as part of the Black Lives Matter movement in demonstrations that ended peacefully.
Protesters in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday chanted “No justice, no peace” and “Hands up, don’t shoot.” At one point the protest stopped outside a Broward County jail and prisoners banged on windows in support. A Palm Beach Post reporter tweeted a photo of a protester shaking a police officer’s hand as the West Palm Beach protest disbursed.
A third protest was planned in Miami on Saturday evening.
Protesters march alongside police in NYC
Hundreds of people have marched in New York City to protest police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The protesters chanted “Black lives matter” and “No justice, no peace” as they marched through Manhattan on Saturday. As many as 1,000 people joined the protest, but many left when it started raining.
Police officers marched alongside the protesters and tried to keep them on the sidewalk. A police spokesman said there were at least 20 arrests.
‘Weekend of rage’
Angry protesters in Philadelphia marched to two police precincts in the northern part of the city, facing off with police officers who kept calm as demonstrators shouted slogans and sometimes taunted them.
Hundreds of people took part in Saturday’s six-hour march, which attracted a multiracial, multi-ethnic crowd upset over the fatal shooting of black men. They sought to shut down police activity and traffic in the precincts as part of what they proclaimed a “weekend of rage.”
Some protesters reportedly yelled expletives at police and walked up to some of them. “Without the uniform and badge, you are just like us,” one protester told a black officer.