Five people were arrested in Homewood during a protest in the police shooting death of Jabari Peoples.

Roughly 30 to 40 people gathered at Homewood Soccer Park at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday as part of ongoing demonstrations. Peoples was shot to death one month ago tonight.

The protests come as Alabama Law Enforcement has refused to let Peoples’ family see video footage of the 18-year-old’s June 23 slaying.

The protesters met at the park and then caravanned in vehicles to the nearby Circle K convenience store at the Intersection of Columbiana Road and Lakeshore Parkway.

The group carried out a peaceful demonstration at the intersection for about 20 minutes when, police say, one of the demonstrators walked into eastbound traffic, followed by multiple other protesters.

Once they began to obstruct traffic, police said, five people were taken into custody.

Lt. John Carr confirmed the arrests and said those taken into custody face a minimum charge of disorderly conduct.

One woman detained by police, who identifies herself on Facebook as Celida Soto, posted a video as she was handcuffed in a police car.

“No justice, no peace,” Soto said. “Jabari Peoples, they don’t want to show the video cause they know they some damn criminals.”

No injuries or damage were reported.

Activists have warned that downtown Homewood will become the center of increased protests.

“We will shut Homewood down for justice,” Wayne T. Harris, director of communications for Black Lives Matter Birmingham told Homewood city leaders last week.

“We are organized,” he said. “We will rally, we will host sit-ins, we will hold die-ins and vigils throughout downtown at the doorsteps of your businesses. Your commerce will feel our grief.”

Peoples was a 2024 graduate of Aliceville High School where he was standout track athlete and football player.

Peoples had just finished his freshman year at Alabama A & M where he was studying computer information and criminal justice with hopes of becoming a law enforcement officer, specifically a detective.

He was shot to death that Monday night in Homewood Soccer Park.

Homewood police say a veteran officer, who has not been publicly identified, approached the vehicle to investigate because of what police say was a recent increase in criminal activity in and around the city’s athletic complexes.

The officer, police say, smelled marijuana and ordered Peoples and his female friend out of the vehicle.

Police say the encounter ended with Peoples resisting, breaking away from the officer as he tried to handcuff him, and grabbing a gun from the driver’s side door pocket.

The officer shot Peoples, who was pronounced dead a short time later at UAB Hospital.

Peoples’ family and attorney Leroy Maxwell and Ben Crump disagreed with that narrative, saying that Peoples wasn’t armed and didn’t resist.

The Homewood Police Department turned the investigation over to ALEA, which is standard policy for many officer-involved shootings.

ALEA denied the family’s request to see the footage, saying release of the video footage would jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

Though Alabama state provides a way for families to view body camera and dash cam videos, the same law also allows law enforcement to withhold the footage for investigative purposes.

There have been several protests following the fatal shooting, including at the Homewood Police Department, ALEA’s office in west Homewood, Homewood City Hall and during the World Police and Fire Games in the Birmingham area.

Wednesday marked the first arrests during any of the many protests.