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<\/p>\nA planned demonstration and vigil in support of a 37-year-old man shot and killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis concluded Saturday in downtown Los Angeles without incident, but a number of protesters lingered well into the evening, police said.<\/p>\n
LAPD officers issued a dispersal order before 9 p.m. to a crowd gathered on Alameda Street between Temple and Aliso streets, requiring them to leave the area or be subject to arrest.<\/p>\n
Though the planned vigil concluded at 8 p.m., demonstrators were still gathered near the downtown federal building at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said he was unaware of any major conflicts shortly before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, crowds gathered first at the historic Placita Olvera marketplace. A banner fluttered above reading, \u201cFrom Los Angeles to Minneapolis, stop ICE terror.\u201d <\/p>\n
As the afternoon light began to fade, speakers led chants to \u201cabolish ICE\u201d and urged \u201cICE out of Minnesota, ICE out of L.A.\u201d <\/p>\n
They carried signs printed with messages including \u201cAmerica hates ICE\u201d and \u201cDrop the charges on Minnesota activists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aida Ashouri, a candidate running for city attorney, said she couldn\u2019t imagine if she had been snatched as a child and deported to Iran, where her family is from. <\/p>\n
Adi Renee, an educator who spoke at the rally, said that the Minneapolis protests, during which thousands of workers walked off the job and hundreds of businesses shut down on Friday, had shown that labor unions could help to lead a political strike against ICE and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to Minneapolis,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019ve shown us that our public unions can call a political strike and they need to do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n
A speaker at the rally who identified herself as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America denounced violence by federal agents in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here again after another shooting,\u201d she said into a megaphone. \u201cOur elected officials continue to fund ICE [which is] murdering and kidnapping our neighbors in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rachel Lee Goldenberg of L.A. participates in a candlelight vigil during a peaceful protest along Olvera Street after the killing of a 37-year-old man by immigration officers in Minneapolis on Saturday.<\/p>\n
(Gina Ferazzi \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
By 5 p.m., the protest had grown to at least 400 people. The crowd began marching down Los Angeles Street, blocking traffic. Demonstrators congregated in front of the federal building, many of them chanting, \u201cThe people united will never be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n
A police helicopter circled overhead.<\/p>\n
Before the protest, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement assailing the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a nurse, by federal agents in Minneapolis, the second such death in that city this month involving U.S. immigration officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis morning we learned of yet another tragic shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents,\u201d Bass said. \u201cThis violence has to stop and the president must remove these armed federal forces from Minneapolis and other American cities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Republican Party cautioned against a rush to judgment in what is certain to be another highly volatile case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the aftermath of any officer-involved shooting, it\u2019s important to figure out what happened, which often is not possible to ascertain immediately,\u201d the party\u2019s chairman said in a statement provided to City News Service. \u201cWe were not present at the scene of this regrettable incident in Minneapolis, and neither was Mayor Karen Bass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at least one Republican senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, called for an investigation into Pretti\u2019s death, describing events in Minneapolis as \u201cincredibly disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, a small group of protesters gathered at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights.<\/p>\n