PHOENIX — Hundreds of protesters hit the streets of Phoenix once again on Saturday night to protest police brutality.
It is the 17th day in a row of demonstrations in the Valley after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. The protests have remained mostly peaceful in the Phoenix area.
Some activists have pushed city councils to defund police departments, including a march on Thursday in Tempe that attracted hundreds of people.
It's a proposal that Phoenix's police union adamantly opposes.
Dion Johnson, the man killed by a DPS trooper on Memorial Day, has been cited by protesters as another example of racial injustice, but details of that incident remain scarce.
Johnson was buried Friday after a private funeral.
