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About 20 local carpenters from the Southwest Region of Carpenters Local 619 helped roughly 15 downtown businesses board up windows and doors Friday morning, as a precaution should any civil unrest continue this weekend.

Local carpenters have volunteered to board up area businesses who fear they may be looted. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has more details.

Protesters who assembled in downtown San Diego Sunday to call for justice in the death of George Floyd — a black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck — clashed with police officers who deployed tear gas to disperse what they called an “aggressive crowd.”

The southbound Interstate 5 off-ramps at Front Street and 10th Avenue are closed due to demonstrations in the downtown area, according to Caltrans San Diego.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers has an up-close look tense moments between police and protesters following a day of mostly peaceful demonstrations.

A crowd of sit-down protesters gathered for a demonstration in Balboa Park on Monday for the seventh day of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, reports NBC 7’s Dave Summers.

NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez is live in downtown San Diego getting closer to the damage cause by protesters.

NBC 7’s Audra Stafford shares how peaceful protests turned violent in downtown San Diego.

While protesters demonstrated for a second night calling for justice in the death of George Floyd, looters took advantage and broke into an area CVS Pharmacy. NBC 7’s Niala Charles reports.

NBC 7’s Allison Ash reports from downtown where protesters are apparently becoming more agitating toward police.

NBC 7’s Joe Little reports protesters began throwing water bottles and trash at police, and were met by what was believed to be pepper spray balls.

The man who was shot and killed by a San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy last week was shot three times as he was running away, including one bullet that struck him in the back. The previously unreported details of the case come as community advocates are reacting to new information surrounding the shooting uncovered by NBC 7 Investigates. For 36-year-old…

Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.

Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.

A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

A man who escaped Park Rangers custody as he was being transported to the San Diego Central Jail Friday evening was shot by a deputy and later died at the hospital, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.

NBC 7’s Niala Charles has new information about the fatal deputy-involved shooting.

The man escaped custody at the gate of the jail but was shot before he could get away.