TAMPA, Fla. — Saturday saw more protests by Black Lives Matter members and supporters speaking out against police brutality and systematic racism.

It was one of the largest and loudest gatherings of protesters in the Tampa Bay area since the social justice marches began about three weeks ago. Organizers estimate about 5,000 people took to the streets chanting, and carrying signs to raise awareness.

"I’m just glad we’re able to participate," said protester Heather Rodriguez. "It’s an important cause."

Another protester we spoke to, Dan Cartwright, said he's marching for his daughter.

"My daughter is two years old and doesn’t have anything to do with any of this," he explained. "But l want to make sure her future is clear and she has the right to do what she wants, when she wants, and how she wants."

The path of the marchers at one point brought them to the intersection of S. Howard Avenue and W. Swann Avenue. There, the march stopped and protesters knelt in memory of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Minneapolis man whose death on May 25 while in custody of police sparked protests coast to coast.

The group then resumed their march back to Fred Ball Park, where the event came to a peaceful end.

"It’s a culmination of a love for the city of Tampa that we are allowing people to come out, express themselves and their disdain for police brutality," said Chaikirah Parker of Black Lives Matter.

This group was not the only group marching in support in Black Lives Matter in Tampa Saturday. Another group, marching along W. Tampa Bay Boulevard near Raymond James Stadium and the Tampa Police Department's District 1 building, came in contact with a scheduled "Back the Blue" rally in support of local police. 

Though tensions ran high between the two groups and police at times had to intervene to keep things under control, no one was arrested.