Twelve minutes past curfew, police rush anti-police brutality protesters in downtown Dallas, TX on May 31, 2020.
After previous protests in Dallas saw an aggressive police response followed by incidents of looting, violence and vandalism, a 7 p.m. curfew was imposed for portions of the city, including downtown.
A protester is zip-tied by Dallas police in the 300 block of North St. Paul Street in downtown Dallas, TX on May 31, 2020.
Despite a peaceful protest march, once the 7 p.m. curfew commenced, police fired chemical agents into some crowds before making arrests.
Protesters march through Lake Cliff Park in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 1, 2020.
Marchers publicly protested systemic racism despite state-wide calls to self-isolate during the fourth month of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Protesters against racism and police brutality march near White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX on June 2, 2020.
The protest was organized by Emily Boyd (center) and Sharon Iweajunwa (right), both 2019 graduates of Lake Highlands High School.
“Our goal was to speak out, to start a conversation about things that have been swept under the rug,” Iweajunwa said. “When I first arrived at the march, I admit I was terrified. Then I saw how many supporters were there, and it was heart-warming.”
Police detain almost 700 protesters on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, TX on June 1, 2020.
After the City imposed a localized 7 p.m. curfew intended to curtail ongoing protests in downtown Dallas, marchers rallied on the edge of the curfew zone and marched away, onto the bridge, where they were met by a phalanx of police in riot gear, some firing chemical agents into the peaceful march; another line of police closed in behind the protesters, effectively trapping them on the bridge where they were detained for hours before being released.
The incident drew severe public outcry with calls for Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall’s resignation.
A protester holds up a sign reading “spread love” as police withdraw from the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, TX on June 1, 2020.
After trapping and detaining over 700 protesters on the bridge in a massive kettling maneuver, the protesters were bussed to the nearby Frank Crowley Courts Building and released.
Dallas Police Sgt. Ira Carter takes a knee with protesters at Lake Cliff Park in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 2, 2020.
Carter expressed support for the protesters but cautioned them to remain peaceful.
Unlike previous nights of aggressive policing, the protest at Lake Cliff Park bore a suppressed police presence with law enforcement surrounding the park at range.
Protesters dance at Belo Garden after marching through downtown Dallas, TX on June 6, 2020.
While protests organically surged after the death of George Floyd, they soon sprung into organized affairs, to include medical tents and, in this case, a DJ booth.
Law enforcement and anti-police brutality protesters work together to stabilize a man after a tangential assault left him unconscious and bleeding near Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, TX on June 6, 2020.
The unconscious man had been attacked and robbed. His assailant was then attacked by another man defending the victim.
Protest marchers rest at Pacific Plaza in Dallas, TX on June 6, 2020.
Temperatures hit 97 degrees with some protesters collapsing from heat exhaustion. The woman at left said she was inclined to protest in the heat despite being eight months pregnant.
A woman watches from a doorway as protesters march through downtown Dallas, TX on June 6, 2020.
Some business owners had boarded their storefronts after previous nights of looting and vandalism.
A dancer takes center stage at the Black Lives Matter Dance Protest at John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza in Dallas, TX on June 7, 2020.
The event invited dancers from multiple disciplines from across North Texas to perform in protest against systemic racism and police violence.
Protesters occupy the intersection of Al Lipscomb Way and South Good Latimer Expressway in south Dallas, TX on June 7, 2020.
After public outcry over aggressive police tactics employed to quell recent protests, law enforcement took a more passive approach by deploying police officers as escorts and monitors.
Protesters march down South Ervay Street in Dallas, TX on June 7, 2020.
Anti-police brutality protests throughout the month were marked by youth and ethnic diversity.
Cloaked in a starless American flag, a protester marches toward City Hall in Dallas, TX on June 7, 2020.
Protesters on Routh Street pass under Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas, TX on June 7, 2020.
With echoes abounding, protest chants often intensified beneath bridges.
In the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 11, 2020, protesters confront law enforcement with signs bearing names of Black Americans who died in police custody.
The protest coincided with President Donald Trump’s visit to Gateway Church.
The number of protesters dwarfed that of Trump supporters who cheered the presidential motorcade.
Later that day, President Trump repeated his vow to “dominate the streets.”
Protesters embrace at Hillcrest Road and Churchill Way ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Gateway Church in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 11, 2020.
Under heavy security, the protest remained peaceful.
A police officer is laden with magazines at a protest during President Donald Trump’s visit to Gateway Church in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 11, 2020.
Some officers carried rifles or grenade launchers.
A protester holding the U.S. Constitution trades words with a motorist at Forest Lane and Preston Road in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 11, 2020.
Protesters shut down the busy intersection in an act of civil disobedience aimed to instill a sense of helplessness analogous to that felt by victims of police violence, one protester said.
A bar patron applauds protesters marching down Maple Avenue in uptown Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
Throughout the month’s protests, motorists and residents routinely honked their horns or banged pots with kitchen utensils to show support.
As anti-police brutality protests entered their third week, protesters march down Harry Hines Boulevard near the Design District in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
Activist Dominique Alexander takes a knee with protest marchers during the Black State of Emergency protest in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
Alexander, president and founder of the Next Generation Action Network, a social justice organization, kneeled alongside protesters for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the duration that Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck before he died in Minneapolis, MN on May 25, 2020.
A man wearing a T-shirt reading “white lives matter too” is ejected from the Black State of Emergency protest at Reverchon Park in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
The slogan was seen by many as an affront to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Protesters march down Harry Hines Boulevard from Pike Park in the Stop Police Crimes protest in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
In a show of solidarity nodding to 2014’s Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, Dallas artists painted yellow umbrellas with the names of people who died in Dallas police custody.
While the umbrellas served as a metaphor for refuge from brutality, they could also deflect less-lethal munitions fired by police, encourage social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic or act as sunshades in sweltering Texas heat.
A Dallas police officer carries a cooler after a motorist crashed into a police motorcycle during the Ride for Justice protest in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
Cyclists, skaters, rollerbladers and skateboarders rolled ahead of a pedestrian protest to block intersections, providing safer passage.
Protesters march through a Target store on Haskell Avenue in Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
To the shock of customers and employees, the protesters lapped the store chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” before regrouping outside and carrying on without incident.
Protesters pass a mural in the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Dallas, TX on June 13, 2020.
Anti-police brutality protests first sparked off in downtown Dallas but soon spread into the city’s wealthier neighborhoods.
Protesters intervene when a scuffle erupts between a protester and a Dallas police officer at the Coming Out for Pence protest in downtown Dallas on June 28, 2020.
Groups including LGBTQ advocates protested a visit by Vice President Mike Pence to nearby First Baptist Church, headed by Dr. Robert Jeffers, a longtime supporter of the Trump Administration.
A broken American flag lies on the street in downtown Dallas, TX on June 28, 2020.
Parishioners attending a service with Vice President Pence at First Baptist Church filed out with small American flags. At least one was soon discarded.