George Floyd died Monday after he suffocated during a confrontation with police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Twitter photo)

About 60 people demonstrated peacefully Thursday in Oakland to let their voices be heard about the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, police said.

The demonstration began shortly before 4 p.m. No one was arrested and no one was cited. Police said officers did not have to use any force and no damage was reported.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.