Protests in Los Angeles after Breonna Taylor decision

Protesters square off with police aiming less-lethal weapons Thursday in Hollywood.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A protester prays on Sunset Boulevard on Thursday as about 300 people march through Hollywood.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Friends embrace outside the Hollywood Forever cemetery after a protest march Thursday.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Protesters are separated during a disagreement Thursday in Los Angeles.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Miracle Murphy chants Thursday during protests in Los Angeles.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Paramedics help a protester who was struck by a vehicle Thursday on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A protester in Los Angeles waves a Black Lives Matter flag.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Activists lead chants from the back of a truck during a Hollywood protest.  (Josie Norris / Los Angeles Times)

A Prius runs through a crowd of people on Sunset Boulevard and North Cahuenga Boulevard during a protest Thursday.  (Josie Norris / Los Angeles Times)

Paramedics help a protester who was hit by a truck Thursday on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The vehicle broke through the protest group.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A protester who was hit by a truck is attended to as paramedics arrive on Sunset Boulevard.   (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Nijdeka Akunyili Crosby teaches her son Jideora, 3, how to raise his fist alongside her husband, Justan, and son Eziobi, 1, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Thursday.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The scene near Hollywood Forever cemetery, where protesters gathered Thursday for a march. 

Hundreds march downtown while protesting the Louisville, Ky., grand jury decision to not charge the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Protesters taunt a police officer outside LAPD headquarters downtown.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds march downtown while protesting the Louisville, Ky., grand jury decision to not charge police officers in the death of Breonna Taylor.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Byron Crenshaw and Sharon Smith hug each other while listening to a speaker in downtown Los Angeles.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A lone demonstrator climbs a streetlight pole at the corner of First and Main streets downtown.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Protesters carry a picture of Breonna Taylor along Seventh St. downtown.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Protesters walk along Seventh St. downtown as diners take pictures from a restaurant.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds gather downtown to protest the Louisville, Ky., grand jury decision to not charge the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A protester tips over a fence outside LAPD headquarters downtown.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds gather downtown for a Black Lives Matter demonstration Wednesday night.
  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Janaya Khan embraces Black Lives Matter LA cofounder Melina Abdullah.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Lorissa Torcero writes a poem while joining others downtown for the rally.
  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Merieme at the downtown demonstration.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds gather downtown to react to the Breonna Taylor case in Louisville, KY.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Masked protesters react to the Breonna Taylor case in downtown L.A.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Trai Icart joins the demonstration.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)