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On Saturday they were all there, as one says. The streets of Los Angeles were filled with families with children, people with dogs, students, senior citizens and many of those who could not or did not dare to go out to protest the unjust and cruel death of George Floyd on 25 of May. There were marches throughout the city, a dozen rallies of thousands, and a unanimous cry to end racism in the United States and call for justice.

Beverly Hills and Downtown - once again - recorded the largest in Southern California after more than a week of protests . Some calculations spoke of more than 5,000 people parading down Santa Monica Boulevard, this time with little police presence and no incidents from start to finish. In downtown Los Angeles, the marches started early and continued until after sunset, no longer threatened by a four-day curfew.

San Pedro, Culver City, Century City, Pacoima or Porter Ranch also hosted demonstrations . Huntington Beach recorded the only arrests of the day, eight in total, following a confrontation between protesters and a group of Donald Trump supporters trying to boycott the marches.

In Altadena, a community with a large African-American population, there were strong emotions. Zina, 57, gave heartfelt thanks to those on the street as she recorded the moment on her phone. "These protests are going to change black history in the US. I think this time they will," she said hopefully. "We are seeing people opening their hearts."

A block further down, Paul Gibson watched the procession wrapped in a robe and house slippers. He ran out of his house as he heard people go by. A single question was enough for tears to flow. "This is very motivating for me," he managed to say after recovering . Gibson, a veteran civil servant, was in the civil rights marches in Washington in the 1960s, and believes, like Zina, that now there will be a change.

Down the middle of the street the tireless Jasmine Abdullah Richards comes down with a homemade speaker on her back and a microphone. She is the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement in Pasadena and she is asking people to leave their homes. "Get together! This is not a parade!" she yells at them. "How long will enough be enough? You must all be outraged. They are killing us every day."

At Charles White Park, activists have already begun to speak in front of a crowd. Brandon Lamar recalls after finishing his speech that he was born the year of the revolts over the Rodney King case in Los Angeles, in 1992. "I think the change will come through legislative changes , such as the announcement by Mayor (Eric) Garcetti to cut the police budget to go to low-income black communities. "

Lamar believes in a rapprochement between the police and African Americans as a remedy against episodes of brutality. "You have to have more conversations with officers but without uniforms. It is the only way that they see them as people and not as police officers. This way they can earn our respect."

Afterward, Pastor Anthony McFarland was carried away for the moment and made the tears of those present jump. "What they did to George is inhumane. It shouldn't happen to anyone. We want a change now . Now that the world is awake and paying attention, let's not let him go back to sleep and forget about this cause. The oppressed will never return. be oppressed. "

After the applause, eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence were observed, the time that Minneapolis police officer Dereck Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's neck. An eternity. Four minutes later Jasmine Richards, the speaker girl, broke it, shouting the last words the deceased spoke: "Mom, I can't breathe, I can't breathe . " She shouted them with tears to exhaustion, like a macabre and improvised theater scene. People were crying. Floyd's death still hurts a vast majority in this country.

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