Dozens of people rallied in Washington Square Park in honor of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old black man fatally shot by a white police officer in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Dominique Lucious, a transgender woman murdered in Missouri.

Demonstrators lit candles and laid flowers near their pictures.

“We have failed Daunte Wright. We have failed Dominque Lucious,” one speaker at the rally shouted into a bullhorn.

Protesters here said they’re planning another summer of demonstrations, following last year's protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

Wright’s death and the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged in Floyd’s death, are sparking new demonstrations in the city.

Steff Reed was offering protesters here squirts of hand sanitizer water and masks, with help from Judson Memorial Church, near Washington Square Park.

“It’s helping to make it easier for folks to stand up for what they believe in and just to nourish them, and to help make their effort sustainable,” Reed said

Reed says he's been supporting protesters for years, and is continuing that tradition this summer.

“I was here, and again, offering mutual aid, and offering a hand because this is a long, long long thing - there’s folks who I know who were protesting for occupy Wall Street, folks who were protesting the murders of Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown and Eric Garner and Sandra Bland and the list goes on,” Reed said.

Other protesters here, also say they plan to continue social justice protests this summer.

“It’s good that people recognize it’s actually happening,” said Jay W. Walker. “But until they get to the actual root causes We’re not going to have any change, so I’m going to be out here in the streets, non stop.”

“In New York City, I feel like we have to lead by example, by peaceful protest and by being on the vanguard for helping others to figure out where we should go,” said Mary Rothfusz.