Protests prompted by the police killing of George Floyd popped up in even more cities across the U.S. on Saturday as thousands of people continued to demand justice for Black victims of police brutality.
Large swaths of people gathered on the streets of Philadelphia; Washington D.C.; Austin, Texas; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Newark, New Jersey; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Columbus, Ohio, on the warm weekend day.
The protesters at many of the demonstrations chanted and held signs, repeating a haunting phrase that Floyd, 46, uttered as a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes this past Monday:
Hundreds of people turned out in Salt Lake City.
On Friday, protesters showed up in Minneapolis, Louisville, New York City, Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Portland, Phoenix, Chicago and Detroit.
At other times, the tension between police and the anti-racism protesters led to officers deploying tear gas.
