Update, 3:30 p.m.: In Tampa’s SoHo neighborhood, a small protest ended after about an hour of marching.
An energetic crowd had descended on afternoon brunch-goers, briefly blocking traffic on Kennedy Avenue. Many of the people dining outdoors on Howard Avenue clapped and cheered as they passed. Then, the group dispersed almost as quickly as they came.
Organizers said they planned to repeat the march in Hyde Park next Sunday. “For far too long, people have been encapsulated in a bubble of privilege," an organizer who declined to give her name told the group. "We are shaking up their comfort level.”
In St. Petersburg, the crowd is growing. Hundreds of protesters have begun to march west on Central Avenue. Some are chanting “march with us” as they pass by people eating outdoors at restaurants. Others are sitting in the street around the roundabout at 11th Street.
2:30 p.m: A large crowd has gathered across the street from St. Petersburg’s City Hall, preparing to march. People are standing in a large circle to introduce themselves and share why they are joining the protest.
In Tampa’s SoHo neighborhood, about 100 people are marching by restaurants with signs and megaphones, shouting “hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go.” At one intersection, they blocked cars and cheered “Black Lives Matter” when they heard honks of support. There appeared to be no police officers accompanying the group.
1:50 p.m.: Small groups have begun to gather in Tampa’s Hyde Park and at St. Petersburg’s City Hall. In St. Pete, a march will begin around 2. p.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. Another is planned at 7.
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Under gray skies and facing a 70 percent chance of rain, a few people turned out Sunday morning in downtown Tampa as local demonstrations over the death of George Floyd while in police custody continued for a second week.
11:40 a.m. It took nearly 90 minutes but demonstrators in downtown Tampa read through their entire list of 5,000 names.
"We can no longer just say Houston we have a problem," Pastor Elvis Piggot said. He then named cities across the nation, punctuating it with "Tampa we have a problem"
The group gathered this morning was drawing attention to people killed by law enforcement across the United States.
They didn’t know the details of these deaths but their list runs to 5,000 names.
State troopers went to work early downtown, too, meeting in the parking lot of the Tampa Bay Times building on North Ashley Drive. Troopers have helped the Tampa Police Department block demonstrators who have tried to march onto nearby Interstate 275.
In St. Petersburg, there’s no sign yet of demonstrations downtown Sunday morning.
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