Plaza protesters link arms, briefly block roads Thursday

Protesters linked arms and briefly blocked traffic on the Country Club Plaza Thursday evening, voicing their demands for change for the seventh straight day in Kansas City, Missouri.

FIRST TONIGHT --PROTESTERS BLOCKTRAFFIC ON THE COUNTRYCLUB PLAZA.LOCKED ARM IN ARM,SHOUTING "THESE AREOUR STREETS."41 ACTION NEWSREPORTER ARIELROTHFIELD JOINS US LIVE.ARIEL, WHAT IS IT LIKETONIGHT?Today is truly the first daysince Friday where we haveseen limited police presenceon the plazaAll we have seen and heardare the voices of protestorswho are demanding changeand denouncing racism Earlierthis evening they peacefullyweaved I'm their way throughthe plaza- whose streets wereopen for the first time sinceSaturday They moved up MainStreet and walked downBroadway Temporarilyblocking an intersection in theMiddle of Westport And finallyended up here on the plazawhere they sat and stood armin arm to make their voicesheard And demand changeafter the murder of GeorgeFloyd and other unarmedblack men"Everybody that's looting andall ofthat that's not the way to do ityoucan't play by their games bytheirrules by their tactics we havetocome up with our own way to cometogether because we're all in ittogether their 10% or'severybodyout here is not 10%.

And this istheway to do it?

It's a way to doitexactly we can't be breaking upeverything"Many of these protestors havebeen out here since last week.And they are planning to beout here again tomorrow nightinto the weekend.Reporting AR.

41PROTESTERS PLAN TORALLY AT CITY HALLTOMORROW.ONE GROUP WILL MARCHFROM JARBOE PARK TOCITY HALL.IT STARTS AT 9-30 A-M.THE GROUP PLANS TOJOIN THE BLACK LIVESMATTER PROTEST AT CITYHALL AT 11 A-M.ORGANIZERS SAY THIS ISA PEACEFUL PROTEST.