2 arrested at protest demanding Eric Garcetti to be excluded from Biden cabinet

Two protesters were arrested Thursday at the third daily demonstration outside Mayor Eric Garcetti's official residence aimed at keeping him from being nominated to a post in President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet.

The Thanksgiving crowd was estimated at between 50 and 100 people. Demonstrations have promised to show up at 9 a.m. at the official residence in Hancock Park "every single day," according to the Black Lives Matter-LA's Facebook page.

The group added that the protests were to "tell @JoeBiden we don't want the worst mayor in the nation setting national policy. Don't appoint Garcetti to anything!''

A video posted on Twitter at 4:18 p.m. showed the Los Angeles Police Department declaring an unlawful assembly and urging protesters to leave the area.

The two arrested protesters were likely processed and issued misdemeanor citations for remaining at an unlawful assembly after the police ordered them to disperse, according to Officer D. Orris of the LAPD's Operations Center.

They arrived late to the event and didn't hear the order to disperse, according to BLM.

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