Valencia Street was shut down this morning as protestors marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Alex Nieto blocked traffic in both directions. The police shooting of Nieto, a 28-year-old security guard shot dead by SFPD officers on Bernal Hill, took place on March 21st of last year.

The District Attorney announced in February that it would not press charges against the SFPD officers who, between the four of them, fired a total of 59 shots at Nieto. The Chronicle reported at the time that the failure to press charges resulted from, according to the DA’s office, “Nieto [pointing] a Taser shock weapon that the officers reasonably mistook for a pistol.”

In addition to stopping traffic, several individuals wearing “No Justice No Peace” shirts chained themselves to the SFPD Mission Station gate. According to Mission Local, the “activists said they intended to stay for 4 hours and 15 minutes, in reference to the city’s area code and the police code 415, which they said indicates a disturbance.”