A woman detained by police in New Orleans (Screenshot from vice

A woman detained by police in New Orleans was released after hundreds of protesters surrounded the officer’s car and demanded her release.

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Other Twitter users said that the practice is rare, but also occurred in Ferguson, Missouri following protests after the police shooting death of Michael Brown.

The New Orleans Police Department later wrote on Twitter that they were responding to a shooting incident in Duncan Plaza where the protests were being held.

That is where officers were observed arresting the woman, and the crowd called for her release.

Protests have persisted in New Orleans, as in many other U.S. cities, following the police killing of George Floyd.