George Floyd protests in Rhode Island
[3] On June 11, about 50 people marched to Harrison Mill Pond from Eccleston Field and lied face down on the sidewalk with their hands behind their backs for eight minutes and forty-six seconds.[10] On June 7, around 300 people gathered by the Stop and Shop Plaza on Ten Rod Road to support Black Lives Matter.[13][14][15] In late June, Providence police arrested two members of the Warwick rap group Waraq on charges of inciting violence in connection with the mall break-in.[16] Following the riot, businesses and art studios in downtown Providence painted and displayed plywood murals in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.[26] Those participating in the vigil then marched to Congdon Street Baptist Church and stopped along the way to pay respects at a marker commemorating the Snowtown Riot in 1831, in which a Black neighborhood in Providence was attacked for four days by a white mob.