Ferguson protesters reach the site where Ezell Ford was killed last August. | Daina Beth Solomon
Protests continued to unfold around the country on Monday, a week after the Grand Jury in Ferguson decided not to indict the officer who killed Michael Brown last summer.
In Los Angeles, the action was in South L.A., where a group of 30 clustered at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton Division waving signs that declared, “Ferguson is everywhere.”
Then some protestors took to a bullhorn to tell stories of just how the events of Ferguson are linked to their own lives in Los Angeles – particularly the cases of Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego, both killed by officers from Newton Division last August.
Click play to hear their voices as they headed on a three and a half mile march to the spot Ford was killed at 65th and Broadway:
One person was arrested for walking in the road after a scuffle with police. It was a otherwise a peaceful protest that drew waves and cheers from people at the mini markets, auto repair shops, furniture stores and Zumba studios lining Central Avenue.
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