Minutemen, others march in L.A. to protest illegal immigration
Benjamin Reed / Los Angeles Times



Dozens of protesters, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and community activists, march along Broadway in downtown L.A. to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status.

The group of about 50 sought to draw attention to the slaying of a black youth by an alleged gang member in the country illegally. Counter-protesters call the marchers 'racist.'


Illegal immigration protester Ted Hayes marches in downtown Los Angeles alongside Jamiel and Anita Shaw, the parents of Jamiel Shaw II, 17, a black athlete who was shot and killed in March by an alleged gang member who was in the country illegally. Marchers carried American flags and signs that read, “Justice for Jamielâ€