ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Outside the Rochester Police Locust Club, a small group of protesters gathered on Thursday to express their disapproval of what attorneys for the RPD officers in the Daniel Prude case had to say. 

Several were taken into custody. 

Things got tense outside of the Locust Club on Lexington Avenue after Ashley Gantt — organizer of Free the People ROC — was taken into custody by Rochester police officers.

After the police car with Gantt in the back left the area, more protesters showed up. At least four others were detained by police, including a girl and her parents who say she is 14 years old.    

Breyana Clark with Free the People Roc was inside the Locust Club at the press conference and said she was upset by what happened.

“It was very disturbing. They were justifying this man’s murder. They said that Joe Prude put his hands up and basically allowed this to happen when Joe Prude was in fact on the 911 call saying he’s not a threat to anybody but himself, please don’t kill my brother. Medical opinion not based on fact,” said Clark.

Clark was one of two members of Free the People Roc who attended the press conference.  

Both work at a local radio station — questioning lawyers about claims that the officers followed their training the march night when they encountered Prude.

“His first day in Rochester was all of this there knowing they sat there and they pressed down on him, and then they have the nerve to try and do a demo explain it that's, that's their procedure," said Clark.

Several protestors yelled profanities at police officers, accusing them of being racists.

Free the People Roc reps say the group has a fund to bail out those arrested, if needed — and to help with legal fees.

"We just need to be there every step of the way not only for justice, but they're putting themselves on the line for the collective of Black people and Black liberation," said Clarke.

Rochester police say four people were charged with trespassing and issued appearance tickets including Free the People ROC organizer Ashley Gantt, School Board Commissioner Ricardo Adams, and his wife Mary.