Protests erupt across California over police violence but are tempered by Dallas massacre

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Black Lives Matter protesters block the 405 Freeway in Inglewood on July 10.

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Protester Tammy Sum cries as she holds her son, Romeo Flores, during a Black Lives Matter rally in Inglewood on July 10. Protesters briefly blocked the 405 Freeway and held up traffic.

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Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter block traffic on the 405 Freeway in Inglewood on July 10.

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Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter block traffic in both directiona on the 405 Freeway in Inglewood on July 10.

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LAPD officers watch as Black Lives Matter protesters block the 405 Freeway during a protest in Inglewood on July 10.

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Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter confront officers of the California Highway Patrol after briefly blocking traffic on the 405 Freeway in Inglewood on July 10.

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Protesters yell in celebration after shutting down the 405 Freeway during a Black Lives Matter protest in Inglewood on July 10.

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Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter lock arms and chant as they block traffic on the 405 Freeway in Inglewood on July 10.

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Downtown Los Angeles resident Phoebe Unter, 24, writes a message regarding the police in chalk on the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Manchester Street during a July 10 protest in Inglewood.

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Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter hold up signs as they head toward the 405 Freeway during a July 10 demonstration in Inglewood.

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Tatiana McLee-Jackson marches outside of the LAPD headquarters before the start of a protest in response to the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

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Protestors march outside the LAPD headquarters in response to the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

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Colton Jones protests outside LAPD headquarters in response to the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

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Jelecia Smith joins a small protest at Florence and Normandie Avenues against the fatal shootings of black men by police officers.

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Barnard Miller raises his hands as he shouts at the LAPD headquarters before the start of a protest in response to the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

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Protesters gather in front of LAPD headquarters in response to the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

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Protesters outside LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

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Black Lives Matter protesters and others march in Los Angeles.

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Protesters outside Los Angeles City Hall.

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Justin Mullen listens to a speaker outside LAPD headquarters during a Black Lives Matter protest downtown.

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Protester Akeem Henry and bus passengers raise their fists as the bus passes a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Los Angeles.

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A Black Lives Matter protest outside LAPD headquarters.

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Black Lives Matter protesters lead a demonstration outside Los Angeles City Hall.

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Ernestine Brass, holding her 9-month-old daughter, Amy Green, protests the recent deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and other black men in the hands of the police. She was at the corner of Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles on July 7, 2016.

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Officer Flynn raises his Taser and tells protesters on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to stop blocking traffic and step back onto the sidewalk.

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Mac Bevans, left, and Karone Tolliver, 5, march with protesters at Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw boulevards.

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Protesters face off against police in riot helmets at the LAPD’s southwest station to voice their concerns after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in Louisiana and Minnesota, respectively.

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Black Lives Matter protesters.

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Kia Smith holds a picture of her cousin in front of the southwest station as LAPD officers secure the front of the building.

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Anthony Bevans, Karone Tolliver, Curtis Bevans and Malaysia Bevans chant during the Black Lives Matter protest.

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Mac Bevans confronts an LAPD officer in front of the station.

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Protesters talk to officers at the station.

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Protesters confront LAPD Officer Doster about his race and being an officer.

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Protesters confront police at the station.

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A protesters shows a hand symbol of a gun to police as demonstrators march to the LAPD’s southwest station.

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Erica Allen raises her fist as protesters march along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard toward the LAPD’s southwest station

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By Jazmine Ulloa, Veronica Rocha and Kate Mather

July 9, 2016 9:24 AM PT

Protests were held across California on Friday — with more planned this weekend — to express concern about police violence but also to honor the officers killed in the Dallas massacre.

The largest of the demonstrations was in downtown San Francisco, where an estimated 1,000 marchers gathered. A smaller demonstration was held at the Huntington Beach Pier. All were peaceful.

More than 200 people on Friday gathered outside the state Capitol for a small but passionate Black Lives Matter rally, hours after at least five Dallas police officers and multiple people were wounded in a sniper attack.

Theresa Smith, center, of Placentia, joins about two dozen people at a vigil at the Huntington Beach Pier for victims of violence.

No one association was behind the event, which was organized entirely on social media by social justice activists and residents rattled by the events in Dallas and the most recent fatal shootings by police of two African American men: Philando Castile, who was shot and killed in his car by a police officer in Minnesota, and Alton Sterling, who was shot several times while he was held on the ground by police outside a Louisiana convenience store.

Participants led a peaceful march around the Capitol, holding signs and shouting a familiar call: “Hands up. Don’t Shoot.” At least two hecklers shouted at the demonstrators but were quickly quieted by the crowd.

Drivers along the streets honked their horns in support.

Rappers and Los Angeles-area natives the Game and Snoop Dogg led a unification march for men of color Friday morning to the LAPD’s graduation of its newest officers.

The Game, Snoop Dogg lead march to LAPD headquarters, meet with Chief Charlie Beck »

About 6:30 a.m., the Game posted on his Instagram account a call for black, Mexican and men of all races to march to the Los Angeles Police Department’s headquarters to “make the Californian government & it’s law branches aware that from today forward, we will be UNIFIED as minorities & we will no longer allow them to hunt us or be hunted by us !!!”

He said women and children should stay away. “THIS IS OUR MISSION FOR THEM,” he wrote.

The Game, a Compton native whose legal name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, said in his announcement the march had to be peaceful.

“Do not: bring any weapons or anything illegal. Do not come high or belligerent ... We don’t need any HOT HEADS or anyone there for the wrong reasons… We will stand as we are, UNIFIED. I’m calling ALL GANGS, ALL RACES, ALL GROWN MEN affiliated or not & we will stand UNIFIED.”

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