1.   And they said they refuse to be confined to a designated protest area outside Staples Center.

2.   A line of officers lined the protest area.

3.   A protest area will be set up near Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

4.   On Monday night, police and demonstrators clashed violently at the end of a rock concert in the designated protest area.

5.   She noted the people at Staples Center looking down on the concert in the protest area.

6.   The altercation broke out as thousands were leaving a concert by the rock band Rage Against the Machine in a protest area near the convention center.

7.   The stipulation gives demonstrators the right to set up a sound system in the protest area.

8.   Tuesday afternoon, I wandered over to the official protest area.

9.   Police also mark off designated protest areas too far from the event for the demonstrators to be heard, he says.