For the ninth straight day, protestors are on the march in New York City.
Just after 3 p.m., more than 1,000 demonstrators moved down Flatbush Avenue past the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which has become a kind of hub for protest activity in the borough.
At the same time, several dozen protestors were gathered outside the Barclays Center. The group, called Muslims Against Police Brutality, staged a rally in support of Black Lives Matter.
Thursday, members of the same group marched 11 miles from Bay Ridge to Barclays Center. They prayed while protestors from other groups formed a protective ring around them. Then, they marched back again.
Organizers say they want to make sure there is a Muslim presence in the movement, something they say has been largely absent.
In Harlem, around 200 people came together for a vigil to mark what would have been the 27th birthday of Breonna Taylor, a black EMT who was shot and killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment in March after police broke in while she slept, executing a "no-knock" search warrant.
Protests and prayer vigils are planned throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, including another sit-in outside Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side, home to Mayor Bill de Blasio and his family.
This follows another night of peaceful protests around the city that ended in 270 arrests Thursday, mostly for curfew violations.
Many of the protestors complain that the police have begun to employ “kettling” – hemming demonstrators in from all sides with no means of escape, or ability to leave peacefully – as they prepare to make arrests.