{"id":116470,"date":"2026-01-01T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:29:12","slug":"peaceful-sit-in-protest-and-march-held-in-downtown-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116470\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful sit-in protest and march held in downtown Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Peaceful protesters held an emotional sit-in on the steps of Long Beach city hall and then marched downtown to honor the life of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Long Beach had seen some chaos and looting near protests over the weekend and National Guard troops remain in the area guarding businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But all was peaceful &#8211; though loud &#8211; during Thursday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The group of several hundred first held a sit-in at city hall and then walked through the downtown area as cars honked driving by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;For too long I&#8217;ve been silent and I need to use my privilege in order to fight for them,&#8221; said one woman, carrying a Black Lives Matter sign. &#8220;They have been trying to fight for themselves and no one wants to listen. So we all have to walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another man said it was about having his voice be heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;We just want to be heard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we could just be heard in the community and in the government, for the changes to actually happen. We feel like we don&#8217;t have a voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Peaceful protesters held an emotional sit-in on the steps of Long Beach city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[62024,13741,14796,62022,131,133,132,62023],"class_list":{"0":"post-116470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-62024","9":"tag-black-lives-matter","10":"tag-george-floyd","11":"tag-george-floyd-protest","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-long-beach-protest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}