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ARKANSAS

ARKANSAS

About 300 people gathered in front of the state Capitol to seek solutions to racial strife, which Little Rock knows so well.

ARIZONA

Three people were arrested at a late-night protest in downtown Phoenix for allegedly throwing rocks at police.

Phoenix police say no officers were injured as the rocks hit them on their helmets and other protective gear.

Friday night’s protest remained relatively calm until demonstrators tried to march onto the I-10 freeway. Freeway ramps were closed and pepper spray and tear gas were used to deter them.

About 1,000 people chanted “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot” as they marched.

Minor scuffles broke out when a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” T-shirt and holding a Donald Trump campaign sign interrupted the protest.

CALIFORNIA

In San Francisco, about 2,000 protesters marched across downtown to a rally outside City Hall under a huge banner that read, “Stop the Racist Police Terror in the U.S.” An organizer urged the crowd to remain peaceful.

COLORADO

Black Lives Matter supporters said they plan to continue a sit-in in Denver in response to the police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana through Tuesday.

GEORGIA

Several thousand people flooded the streets of downtown Atlanta to protest recent police shootings of African-Americans.

Marchers brought traffic to a standstill downtown after gathering at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights near Centennial Olympic Park.

ILLINOIS

Members of Chicago’s Black Lives Matter movement and other groups played dead outside President Barack Obama’s home in an effort to push the president to act on the violence occurring between police officers and black people.

LOUISIANA

Hundreds of demonstrators in New Orleans gathered under a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to demand an end to police brutality Friday night.

In Baton Rouge, a protest over the shooting death of a black man by white officers has drawn hundreds of people across the street from police headquarters.

Rashad Rusk, 23, said the protesters intended to stay peaceful, but he vowed the protests won’t stop until the two officers accused in Alton Sterling’s death are charged with murder.

MARYLAND

Four people were arrested during a Baltimore protest after they refused to get out of the roadway.

Police said about 200 people marched from McKeldin Square on Friday night to police headquarters.

MASSACHUSETTS

Religious leaders gathered at an interfaith service in Boston to pray for an end to the racially tinged violence racking the nation.

MICHIGAN

A peaceful protest against police brutality drew more than 1,000 people to Campus Martius Park in Detroit.

NEBRASKA

About 300 people gathered in southwest Omaha to protest the recent fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

NEW YORK

Rochester police arrested 74 people for disorderly conduct during a protest by hundreds of people over the shootings of black residents across the nation.

Police in riot gear were patrolling the streets after the protesters marched.

Chief Michael Ciminelli says there were no injuries or property damage during the Friday night march. He estimates as many as 400 people participated.

In New York City, about 300 people took to the streets to protest Friday night.

PENNSYLVANIA

Pittsburgh’s police chief walked along with protesters at an activist march downtown on Friday and said it was peaceful.

In Philadelphia, about 150 people marched for the third consecutive night to protest the deadly shootings of black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

A few dozen people rallied peacefully outside the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters, holding candles and quietly singing “We Shall Not Be Moved” amid a heavy local and federal police presence.

UNITED KINGDOM

Hundreds of people took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in London on Friday.

Large crowds of people marched through busy streets in the central part of the city as drivers honked their horns and passers-by pumped their fists.