Protestors across the U.S. continued Friday night, as people decried police brutality over the killing of two African-American men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, earlier this week.
Friday's protests came a day after a 25-year-old Army veteran went on a shooting rampage killing five police officers in downtown Dallas late Thursday.
After four days of peaceful protests in Baton Rouge, La., over the shooting death of Sterling by a police officer, tensions between police and protesters escalated.
A protest near police headquarters started like others throughout the week, with clogged traffic and chants of "No justice, no peace; no racist police."
By about 7 p.m., with the demonstrators growing to about 200, a line of police officers wearing riot gear with shields and assault-style weapons advanced on the crowd to move them off the busy street.
Tensions continued as demonstrators threw bottles and apples at police. Elected officials, including Democratic state Sen. Regina Barrow, urged protesters to leave the area and participate in a later march to the state Capitol.
The tension peaked around 10 p.m. when police ordered protesters to leave. Several people were handcuffed and loaded into a police van before the crowd began to disperse.
A smaller but vocal crowd remained in a standoff with police, and about 11 p.m. city official began erecting barricades to keep protesters out of the roadway.
In Atlanta, hundreds of protesters massed Friday and marched through downtown. They were met by Georgia State Troopers and Atlanta police near the downtown connector.
The confrontation remained peaceful.
Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said that the goal of his fellow officers is patience.
"We're doing everything we can to exercise patience and we've worked with the Georgia State Patrol and they're doing an excellent job as well so I think that the plan we have in place has been extremely beneficial thus far," he said.
In Phoenix, police officers dressed in riot gear deployed pepper spray as crowds got heated and reached the police barricade. Many continued to hold their hands up, yelling, "Don't shoot...Reroute, reroute! They can't stop us all night!"
A police sergeant attempted to warn the crowd about arrests but was drowned out by the crowd yelling. Several protesters called for the group to move to another street.
Other protests across the U.S. on Thursday were peaceful, including in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In Minnesota, where Castile was shot, hundreds of protesters marched in the rain from a vigil to the governor’s official residence.
Contributing: WXIA-TV, Atlanta, The Arizona Republic and Associated Press
