Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to demonstrate outside the US consulate on Regent Terrace in Edinburgh today.
The socially distanced 'poster protest', which runs until 6pm, was organised in solidarity with demonstrations taking place in over 140 American cities following the police killing of an unarmed black man.
Over the past six days angry protesters have burned down police stations and set fire to patrol cars, looted shops and clashed with riot cops across the US.
The ongoing Edinburgh protest is a more subdued affair, organisers had asked people to attach signs and posters to the railings outside the US consulate building or chalk messages on the pavement.
Three police officers arrived at noon and briefly spoke to an embassy official and a number of protesters gathered outside before leaving. Over the next hour half a dozen people came and tied posters to the fence and chalked messages on the pavement.
Two men, both wearing clinical masks chalked anti-racist messages on the consulate steps before a voice asked them to stop via a speaker on the front door.
The men left but not before the anti-fascist 'A' had been chalked on the consulate door.
Elenor, 25, said: "I'm here in solidarity with the protesters in the US and to take a stance against institutional racism there and here in the UK."
John Player, 64, said: "I'm here because I'm outraged at the killing of George Floyd. It's an extremely scary time in the US.
"We need to stand in solidarity with black lives matter and the people in the united states and getting rid of Trump. They've got the guns but we've got the numbers."
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One banner read justice for 'Sheku Bayou' a black man who in Police Scotland custody in 2015.
Cat, who made the poster said: “Some people think of the police in the uk as ‘better’ than the American police, but police in Scotland kill black people too - my sign calls for justice for George Floyd and for Sheku Bayou, who was killed by police in Kirkcaldy.
"There has been no accountability for his death.”
