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More than 300 arrested in 3 days of Ferguson protests in L.A.

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A protester yells at police on Alvarado Street, where demonstrators were blocked from moving forward.   (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD officers block Alvarado Street on Friday evening.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters are detained on Alvarado Street west of downtown L.A. on Friday evening and given dispersal orders by police on the fifth day of protests over the Ferguson grand jury decision.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters on Alvarado Street on Friday evening.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters plead with LAPD officers during mass arrests in November 2014.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD officers take a young man into custody after an order to disperse was ignored at 6th and Hope streets on Wednesday night.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters stage a “die-in†on a Los Angeles street Wednesday night to represent Michael Brown’s body lying in the Ferguson, Mo., street where he was shot.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester is led away by police officers during a mass arrest of demonstrators in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 26.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck speaks to reporters in Los Angeles on Nov. 26 after officers arrested more than 120 people protesting a Missouri grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown-Darren Wilson case.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD officers take protesters to a waiting bus downtown.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters raise their hands as LAPD officers make arrests at 6th and Hope streets on Wednesday night  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD officers take a young man into custody after orders to disperse were ignored at 6th and Hope streets on Wednesday night.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters raise their hands making peace signs as LAPD officers make arrests at 6th and Hope streets on Wednesday night.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD police officers move in to arrest protesters at Hope and 6th streets in a third day of protest to the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester greets a barking dog in a passing car as protesters march down Alameda Street on the third day of protests after the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters angered by the decision not to prosecute a police officer in the shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., rally outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters rally outside the federal courthouse in downtown L.A.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters are searched after getting arrested in the second day of protests.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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More than 100 demonstrators were arrested Tuesday. “We see you,†some marchers chanted Wednesday as they walked past the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, an apparent reference to the protesters arrested Tuesday night.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Detained protesters are lined up on a wall before getting escorted into a transport vehicle in the second day of protests in L.A.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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More than 100 protesters were arrested and charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct in the second day of protest of the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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LAPD officers surround protesters Wednesday in downtown.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Students from UC San Diego, who had earlier blocked all lanes of northbound Interstate 5 at Nobel Drive in La Jolla, Calif., continue their march along surface streets near the campus.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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Students from UC San Diego march along Villa La Jolla Drive in La Jolla, Calif., after blocking all lanes of northbound Interstate 5 at Nobel Drive.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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California Highway Patrol officers block the Nobel Drive exit from northbound Interstate 5 in La Jolla, Calif., in an effort to keep protesters from returning to the freeway.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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A man throws a traffic barrier at an LAPD officer during a protest Nov. 25.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Demonstrators sit in the middle of the intersection at First and Main streets on Nov. 25 to protest the Ferguson grand jury decision in downtown Los Angeles.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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A crowd confronts LAPD officers outside police headquarters in downtown Los Angeles during a protest Nov. 25.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester kneels at the intersection of Temple and Hill streets as Los Angeles police officers block the street in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 25.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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A truck carrying police equipped with riot gear rolls down Temple Street in Los Angeles during a protest Nov. 25.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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A woman tries to get an elevated view of a protest at LAPD headquarters in Los Angeles on Nov. 25.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters raise their hands and sit to block traffic on the 110 Freeway in protest on November 25, 2014.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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After declaring the march onto the 110 Freeway an unlawful assembly, police officers clear out protesters and move them off the freeway on November 25, 2014 in Los Angeles.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters climb on a CHP vehicle on Hope Street in Los Angeles.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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California Highway Patrol officers block off the on and offramp to the 101 Freeway at the intersection of Hope and Temple streets in Los Angeles on Tuesday.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Protestors block an intersection during demonstrations on Tuesday in Los Angeles following a grand jury decision to not indict a white police officer for the killing of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Mo.   (ROBYN BECK / AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters confront LAPD officers on Hope Street during the second day of protests.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters confront police officers outside LAPD headquarters.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters confront police officers outside LAPD headquarters.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters wave banners outside the LAPD headquarters.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters confront police officers outside LAPD headquarters.   (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters confront police officers outside LAPD headquarters.   (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters surround an LAPD vehicle on Hope Street during the second day of protests.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester climbs on top of a LAPD vehicle as others surround it on Hope Street in Los Angeles.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters lie on the ground to block traffic on Crenshaw and Martin Luther King boulevards in response to the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march down Martin Luther King Boulevard in a second day of protests of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march down Martin Luther King Boulevard.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Deima Thompson, center, marches with protesters in downtown Los Angeles.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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About 30 protesters rallied in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.   (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march with their hands up in front of the LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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About 30 protesters rallied in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.   (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters lay down on the ground on Tuesday to block traffic at Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards in protest against the Ferguson, Mo. grand jury decision.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march in Los Angeles after a grand jury decided not to charge Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester on his skateboard checks his cellphone as demonstrators march in Los Angeles to protest the decision not to charge Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters surround LAPD officers during their march on Nov. 24.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A man gets in the faces of the police as CHP officers try to remove protesters blocking the 110 Freeway on Nov. 24.   (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Officers hold a skirmish line in front of the LAPD headquarters on Nov. 24.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Officers in front of the LAPD headquarters as people protest the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury decision early Nov. 25.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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A protester taunts an officer in front of the LAPD headquarters.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Donald Fields, 37, with daughter, Olivia, 9, at a Leimert Park gathering. “If that was my little brother I would be very sad,†Olivia said of slain teen Michael Brown.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Protestors lie down and block traffic at Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills on Monday night.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Protesters halt traffic in both directions on L.A.’s 110 Freeway near Leimert Park on Nov. 24.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters climb up a hill, onto the 110 Freeway, near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, on Nov. 24.   (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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A driver weaves her way through groups of protesters blocking traffic while marching down Wilshire Boulevard to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills on Monday night.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Protesters confront police at Figueroa Street and Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march down Martin Luther King Boulevard in Los Angeles.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters march down Martin Luther King Boulevard in response to the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters lie in the street at Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles after the Ferguson grand jury decision.  (Patrick Fallon / For The Times)
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Protesters reacting to the grand jury decision in Ferguson block the eastbound 10 Freeway at La Brea.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Protesters react to the grand jury decision in Ferguson by blocking the eastbound 10 Freeway at La Brea Avenue.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
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Community members stand in a long moment of silence at Leimert Park after a grand jury’s decision to not charge Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s shooting death.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Community members gather in Leimert Park to protest a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to charge a police officer in a black 18-year-old’s death.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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The Rev. Jawane Hilton, right, joined by Carson City Councilman Mike Gipson, prays at City on the Hill Church in Carson.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Elijah Woodson of Inglewood watches a TV screen with news coverage of the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury decision inside First AME Church.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Leimert Park residents gather to protest the grand jury decision.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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“You have to stand for something. I stand for justice,†said Percival Neal, 46, in Leimert Park.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Community members gather at Leimert Park in anticipation of the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting, in Los Angeles.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Marvin Thomas embraces his daughter, Devyn Thomas, 10, at the Shop Hair Lounge as they watch television and await a grand jury’s announcement in the case of a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Community members gather at Leimert Park in Los Angeles to protest the grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer in the Ferguson, Mo., shooting.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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Dr. Benjamin Hardwick speaks during a news conference at Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. He, other local pastors, and LAPD officials asked L.A. residents to act peacefully in advance of a grand jury’s ruling in the death of a black teen in Ferguson, Mo.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Community members gather at Leimert Park in anticipation of the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
By Tre’vell Anderson
, Taylor Goldenstein, Samantha Masunaga and Brittny Mejia
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The Los Angeles Police Department has made more than 300 arrests in the last three days after a series of protests over a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Wednesday night and Thursday morning saw another round of protests that weaved through downtown L.A.

LAPD officers arrested about 130 people after corralling the protesters at 6th and Hope streets.

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Police say officers made the arrests after protesters started hitting vehicles in the street and running through intersections, LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman said.

“With the size of this crowd, hitting vehicles is not a safe thing,†he said.

Neiman said that on Tuesday night officers recovered several weapons, including a switchblade knife and pepper spray.

“When they will no longer comply with our requests and when it becomes dangerous, when they start running in and out of cars and put the public at risk, then we have to take action,†LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.

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He said those arrested would be booked on a misdeameanor charge, mostly for unlawful assembly, and bail would be set at $500.

A similar mass arrest followed Tuesday night’s protests, when some people managed to briefly shut down the 101 Freeway and the LAPD made 183 arrests.

The number of arrests in L.A. surpassed those reported in other major U.S. cities on the third night of protests.

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On Tuesday night, protesters blocked traffic on the 101. On Wednesday night, no freeways were blocked.

Late Wednesday, about 30 more protesters gathered near Staples Center and headed north toward LAPD headquarters. As the protesters walked, police warned them not to block traffic. The demonstrators stayed on the sidewalk and arrived at the headquarters at 1st and Spring streets about 11:35 p.m., chanting “We want peace†and “Hands up, don’t shoot.â€

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Tre’vell Anderson

Tre’vell Anderson is a former film reporter for the Los Angeles Times. A sociology graduate from Morehouse College in Atlanta, they also received their master’s in journalism from Stanford University. They left The Times in November 2018.

Taylor Goldenstein

Taylor Goldenstein is a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. She has previously written for the Chicago Tribune, Tampa Bay Times and the Arizona Republic, among other publications. In early 2014, she was a visiting fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Originally from a suburb of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she now looks forward to checking weather apps. She left The Times in 2016.

Samantha Masunaga

Samantha Masunaga is a business reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She’s worked at the paper since 2014.

Brittny Mejia

Brittny Mejia is a Metro reporter covering federal courts for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote narrative pieces with a strong emphasis on the Latino community and others that make up the diversity of L.A. and California. Mejia was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021 in local reporting for her investigation with colleague Jack Dolan that exposed failures in Los Angeles County’s safety-net healthcare system that resulted in months-long wait times for patients, including some who died before getting appointments with specialists. She joined The Times in 2014.

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