00:00The protests in Homewood today that focused on the police shooting death of Jabari Peoples ended with several arrests.
00:06Homewood police say they arrested and charged six people with disorderly conduct.
00:10Police say three of those people had handguns. They charged another with resisting arrest.
00:15The group gathered at the Homewood Soccer Park, where a Homewood police officer shot and killed Jabari Peoples in June.
00:22Then that protest moved through downtown Homewood.
00:25The protest taking place just weeks after Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr announced his office would not be filing
00:31charges in the case,
00:33saying that based on what he saw on police body cam video, Peoples was holding a gun when the officer
00:38shot him.
00:39Attorneys for Peoples' family responded, saying they wanted to see the full body cam video from that scene.
00:46Homewood police also investigating a fire at the Walmart as arson.
00:50Police tell us in an email this afternoon that someone apparently lit items in a shopping cart on fire and
00:56the store was evacuated.
00:58Firefighters put out the flames quickly. No one was hurt.
01:01Police believe whoever set the fire was connected to the protests and arrests.
01:06Investigators hope surveillance video can help them identify who was involved.
01:10Police say that they were evacuated.
