Los Angeles police officers en route to a community meeting in Westlake on Wednesday night encounter mounds of trash in the street.
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For the third night in a row, LAPD officers prepare to face protesters upset over the fatal police shooting of day laborer Manuel Jamines.
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LAPD officers create a barrier with their bodies as they prepare to deal with protesters in the Jamines case.
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Protesters run from Los Angeles police officers on 6th Street on the third night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of Guatemalan day laborer Manuel Jamines.
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Community members gather at a forum hosted by the LAPD at John Liechty Middle School to discuss the officer-involved shooting of a day laborer.
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Police Chief Charlie Beck faces the crowd at John Liechty Middle School.
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A boy throws an egg at LAPD officers as tempers flared at Union Avenue and 6th Street near downtown Los Angeles, where a group of more than 200 had gathered to remember Manuel Jamines and protest his shooting death by an LAPD officer over the weekend.
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Police in riot gear direct protesters along 6th Street.
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Protesters angry over the shooting death by an LAPD officer of a day laborer demonstrate Tuesday along 6th Street, west of downtown. At least 22 people were arrested. The victim, Manuel Jamines, was shot Sunday after he allegedly refused commands to drop a knife.
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Police line up along Union Avenue after a rally over the death of an immigrant killed by police.
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Protesters fill 6th Street near Union Avenue in the Westlake District.
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Officers fire non-lethal projectiles at protesters near Union Avenue and 6th Street. Several officers suffered minor injuries after being hit by bottles and rocks, police said. At least 22 people were arrested on charges such as failure to disperse, said LAPD Sgt. Alex Chogyoji.
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LAPD officers try to disperse the unruly crowd gathered after the vigil in Westlake.
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Men peer out from an apartment building on Bonnie Brae Street as the LAPD begins clearing the roadway, firing non-lethal weapons at people believed to be throwing items at them.
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A man watches from an apartment building on Bonnie Brae Street as LAPD officers clear the area.
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About 9:30 p.m., police declared the protest an unlawful assembly and moved in to disperse the crowd as trash cans were set on fire and rocks and bottles were thrown in the direction of officers.
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Jesus Alejandro Hernandez Carmona, 20, who apparently fell off his bike and hit his head, lies on the ground near a candlelit memorial to Jamines. He was surrounded by a crowd that was book-ended by police lined up along 6th at Union on the east and Burlington Avenue on the west.
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Police officers jump into a squad car to continue patrolling the streets in Westlake.
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Some in the crowd hurled eggs at police cars and others threw objects at a police station's windows, prompting officers in riot gear to push the throng along 6th Street.
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LAPD officers arrest people who have refused to leave after the vigil in Westlake.
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Debris litters Bonnie Brae Street, at 6th Street, after LAPD officers marched up the street firing non-lethal weapons in the direction of objects thrown at them by protesters.
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People made their feelings known in chalk on the sidewalk at Union Avenue and 6th Street, remembering Manuel Jamines and protesting his shooting death by an LAPD officer.
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Passersby put money in boxes with Manuel Jamines' picture at the memorial at 6th Steet and Union Avenue.
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Earlier on Tuesday police display a picture of the knife they say Manuel Jamines was wielding. Officials said they would test the knife to see whose blood is on it.
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Karen Zaldana lights the candles that were extinguished overnight at a makeshift memorial at West 6th Street and South Union Avenue, where a 37-year-old Guatemalan day laborer was shot and killed by LAPD officers Sunday.
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A sign outside the LAPD's Rampart station was vandalized overnight.
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