The protest came two days after the Sacramento County district attorney announced that the two Sacramento officers who killed the man, Stephon Clark, would not face criminal prosecution. Clark, 22, was killed in March 2018 in his grandmother’s backyard after the officers responded to a vandalism complaint.

More than 100 protesters gathered and blocked traffic on Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento on Monday night, the city’s Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday. The police said they used loudspeakers to order the demonstrators to disperse more than 10 times and eventually arrested and cited 84 people.

The Sacramento Bee reporter covering the protest, Dale Kasler, 60, was detained and released, police said.

He had been live-streaming the demonstration on Facebook when he was handcuffed, The Bee reported. Other reporters shouted that Kasler was a journalist on assignment, but he was still led away, The Bee said.

Kasler, who is in his 23rd year as a Bee reporter, was released just after 11 p.m. after being held in custody for about an hour, The Bee said. A photographer for the newspaper, Hector Amezcua, was pushed to the ground by an officer’s baton and his equipment was damaged, the newspaper said.

“I wasn’t thrilled about the situation, obviously,” Kasler said. “I wasn’t refusing an order to disperse; I was covering a story. I think I just got caught up on the wrong side of a police line.”

In an interview on Tuesday, Kasler said the march had been largely peaceful until about 100 riot police officers arrived and advanced on protesters around 9 p.m. Soon, he said, people were surrounded on all sides and it was difficult to disperse.

“I turned to a CHP officer and held up my press pass and he just sort of shrugged in a friendly ‘what are you going to do’ sort of way,” Kasler said, referring to the California Highway Patrol. “I was still doing the Facebook Live thing and at some point it just became my turn.”

After being restrained, Kasler sat beside others on a sidewalk. He said he repeatedly told officers that he was a reporter, and he was eventually asked to give a statement and released.

He would not comment on whether he thought the behavior by police was appropriate, but he described his discussions with law enforcement as nonconfrontational.

In a statement Tuesday, Jeanne Segal, a spokeswoman for McClatchy, which owns The Bee, said, “The right of our reporters to cover our community is protected under the Constitution and is a hallmark of our democracy.”

She added, “We intend to continue to cover the community’s reaction to the Stephon Clark decision and will provide in-depth reporting that will inform our community.”

Scott Rodd, a reporter for The Sacramento Business Journal, said on Twitter that he and a student journalist were also arrested Monday while covering the protest. In a tweet early Tuesday, Rodd said he had been issued a citation and court date.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento said late Monday that he was “very disappointed that the protest ended the way it did.”

“No matter the reason an order to disperse was given, no member of the press should be detained for doing their job,” he said on Twitter.

The Sacramento Police Department did not immediately respond to additional questions about the arrests. Attempts to reach organizers of the protest were not immediately successful.

For nearly a year, community members and activists have demanded police accountability for the death of Clark. The officers who shot him, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, fired 20 times in his direction within seconds of turning a blind corner. Clark was unarmed; his cellphone was found under his body. At least seven bullets hit him, according to an autopsy by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office that was released last May.

The shooting placed a spotlight on tensions over discriminatory policing in black neighborhoods and excessive use of force by police officers. Protests in Sacramento shut down busy streets, disrupted sporting events and overtook City Council meetings.

In January, Clark’s family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Sacramento and the two officers.

But on Saturday, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert argued that the officers had probable cause to stop and detain Clark. She added that police officers are legally justified in using deadly force if they honestly and reasonably believe they are in danger of death or injury.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.