PHOTOS: Weekend Protests Start Peacefully; Intensify With Police Presence

These photos show the escalation of LA's protests, which start with peaceful marching and end with police in helmets holding batons against curtains of smoke, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd. LAist

At 8 p.m. Mayor Garcetti called in the National Guard.

Here is a collection of images from the day, in chronological order, starting with the damage in downtown Saturday morning and ending Saturday evening in mid-city after our photographer was tear-gassed: Zara windows were still smashed at the Fig@&7th shopping center downtown on Saturday morning, May 30. Protesters march near Pan Pacific Park against the death of George Floyd. Protesters march down 3rd St. with various signs against racism and police brutality. Two women join today's Black Lives Matter Protest from inside their car. Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles. May 30 2002. A woman holds a sign reading"killing black people is a pandemic." Smoke near 3rd and Fairfax.

Away from the tense confrontations with police, most of the protestors were just hanging out and talking.

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