Gallery: Students march through UCLA in support of Black Lives Matter movement
By Axel Lopez, Justin Jung, Amy Dixon, Kristie-Valerie Hoang, MacKenzie Coffman
June 4, 2020 8:25 p.m.
A Big Blue Bus pulled over to the side of the road and honked in support of demonstrators.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
After leaving Royce Hall, protesters held signs and marched down Charles E. Young Drive South.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Hundreds march down Charles E. Young Drive South bearing signs and calling chants against police brutality.
(Justin Jung/Daily Bruin)
The demonstration stopped in front of the UCLA police building, where speakers demanded UCLA and other campuses within the University of California divest from UCPD.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Protesters raise their signs protesting police brutality in front of the UCPD office.
(Justin Jung/Daily Bruin)
A protester stands over the UCPD barricade on Westwood Plaza
(Justin Jung/Daily Bruin)
Demonstrators raised their hands in the air as they chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
When protesters reached the UCPD building, crowd leaders encouraged demonstrators to yell George Floyd’s, Ahmaud Arbery’s and Breonna Taylor’s names.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Demonstrators stood atop plastic barricades, waving signs and repeating protest chants practiced prior to the march.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Alex Davis, chair of the Afrikan Student Union, read federal, Los Angeles, UCLA and UC-wide demands before protestors.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
After marching to the front of the UCPD building, the demonstrators continued their march toward Royce Hall.
(Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Members of the Afrikan Student Union and the Black Graduate Student Association kneel and raise their fists in solidarity in front of Powell Library.
(Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Trisden Shaw, president of the Black Graduate Student Association, led the crowd in chanting, “Say her name,” in reference to the recent death of Breonna Taylor.
(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
A protester raises her hand to the sky as she shouts.
(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Incoming graduate student Mason Foster gave a speech in Dickson Plaza to the demonstrators at the end of the protest.
(Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
People in the crowd raise their hands in solidarity with the protest leaders from the Black Graduate Student Association and Afrikan Student Union.
(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
