Los Angeles-based organizing groups Standing Together Advocating for Youth (STAY) and the Youth Justice Coalition organized a flash mob in Echo Park to protest the LAPD’s latest gang injunctions. The injunctions prohibit suspected gang members from associating with one another in the neighborhood, but some in the community see them as more troublesome than helpful. From STAY’s Facebook page advertising the event:

Injunctions have been a tool to harass, imprison, displace families and rupture communities. We are getting together to ride around the proposed injunction area. We are creating our OWN safety in OUR OWN community. This ride will also be a teach in, if you want to learn more about the classist and racist injunctions and the rich hxstory of Echo Park, Silver Lake, Elysian Valley and Vista Hermosa join us! 

More than 150 people participated in and witnessed the protest. Read more at STAY’s blog.