The “Get Off Our Necks! Caravan and Protest” started in a lot on Bridge Street in Salem, then made its way to the Essex County Superior Courthouse and the Lynn Police Department.

"We are letting Governor Baker know that specific action needs to be taken. We refuse to be silent and turn our backs on the racism and systemic oppression."

Friday’s Brookline march came as rallies were also happening in Boston, Malden, Cambridge, Salem, Lynn, Peabody, Lawrence, Gloucester, Billerica, Lexington, and Leominster.

In honor of Taylor on her birthday, and in protest against police brutality everywhere, hundreds of people gathered in Nubian Square in Roxbury yesterday for a vigil.