Police officers facilitate President Donald Trump supporters’ march around Beverly Hills, hours after the counterprotest against the rally was declared an unlawful assembly. Photo by Jintak Han.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump took to the streets of Beverly Hills on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 31 for a weekly “Freedom Rally” demonstration. This particular event — which fell on the eve of the Nov. 3 election — was bookended by two counterprotests.
The Beverly Hills Police Department made a significant presence at the rally and counterprotests, which took place at Roxbury Park and Beverly Gardens Park. Some officers came equipped with riot gear and rubber bullets, and others engaged with the crowd wielding batons.
Photojournalist Jintak Han documented the protests, visually and on Twitter.
Editor’s note: While covering this event, Han was knocked down by an officer with the Beverly Hills Police Department, sustaining a wrist injury and damage to his camera equipment. Los Angeleno has requested a statement and apology from the BHPD.
Hundreds of President Donald Trump supporters, many violating the Beverly Hills city mandate on face masks, occupy the corner of Santa Monica and Beverly boulevards.Santa Paula police officers cut off traffic on the intersection of Santa Monica and Beverly boulevards with an armored vehicle.Women sport so-called “Melania jackets” inspired by the $39 Zara jacket that First Lady Melania Trump wore while visiting migrant children in 2018.A Trump supporter dresses up as the president in celebration of Halloween.Jun Hanaguchi raises four fingers, signing his support for another four years of Trump’s presidency.A cyclist rides down Santa Monica Boulevard while showing support for the QAnon conspiracy theory popular among some Trump supporters.A Trump supporter holds up a poster of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was confirmed to her position by Senate Republicans Oct. 26, 2020, while a smoke bomb thrown by counterprotesters burns in front of him.“Endless V,” a sculpture in Beverly Gardens Park, is wrapped in white plastic in anticipation of potential violence at the Freedom Rally on Oct. 31.A counterprotester dressed in black bloc gear tries to yank an American flag out of a Trump supporter’s hands.Multiple counterprotesters beat a Trump supporter after attempting to take his flag from him. Police officers intervened shortly after.Police officers advance down Santa Monica Boulevard after declaring the counterprotest an unlawful assembly, throwing aside barricades that counterprotesters placed on the road.A Beverly Hills police officer hits an umbrella held up by a counterprotester with his baton.A man in a private security service uniform keeps watch as Trump supporters from the Freedom Rally prepare to march.
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