Photos: Protest shuts down Blue Line

LAPD officers arrest one of about a dozen anti-police brutality protesters blocking the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Police surround about a dozen anti-police brutality protesters blocking the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A sheriff’s deputy mans a perimeter around the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, where about a dozen anti-police brutality protesters blocked a Metro Blue Line train on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Anti-police brutality protesters block the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles as about a dozen of their colleagues are arrested on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

An anti-police brutality protester confronts LAPD officers after about a dozen of them were arrested for blocking the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Police arrest an anti-police brutality protester blocking the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)