NORFOLK, Va. — Black Lives Matter 757 and Hampton Roads Transit both tweeted about demonstrations planned for Friday night.
The Black Lives Matter rally to memorialize George Floyd and other victims of racial violence will happen outside the Chamberlain at Fort Monroe in Hampton. Organizers are asking people to arrive by 5 p.m. in their "Sunday best."
The memorial was scheduled to wrap up by 7:15 p.m., so participants could make it home before Hampton's temporary 8 p.m. curfew.
Friday morning, Hampton Roads Transit tweeted about another event scheduled for Friday night - a protest march that will span "various areas" in Norfolk.
HRT didn't say who organized the march or what roads were expected to be affected, but did give a time frame from between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m.
FreedomFridays757 is organizing a march that starts at 3 p.m. on 38th Street in Norfolk. The march will follow Hampton Boulevard, Church Street, West Brambleton, Granby Street, Main Street, Monticello Avenue and other roads.
They announced all the roads they planned to march down on their Facebook event - but from 38th Street, the procession should stop by the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, the Norfolk Federal Building, the Johnny Reb confederate monument and end up at Old Dominion University's 41st Street parking garage.
Norfolk has recently seen peaceful protests that have not led to any curfews required by Governor Ralph Northam.