Protesters marched to the Los Angeles Police Department in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday where they demanded justice for an unarmed homeless man who was fatally shot during a scuffle with police officers on Sunday.

The shooting occurred after police were called to investigate a robbery on Skid Row, an area in Downtown L.A. that is heavily populated by homeless people suffering from mental illness and drug addiction. After arriving on the scene, police tried to remove a homeless man nicknamed Africa from another displaced person's sleeping tent, however the man resisted arrest.

Officials are now saying the man stole the identity of a French man, according to ABC News.

A cellphone video shows Africa, as he has been identified, swinging at a cop before he is wrestled to the ground by multiple officers. The video also shows several cops opening fire and shooting him while he was still on the ground.

On Monday, Chief Charlie Beck announced the cops opened fire because Africa "forcibly grabbed one of the officer's holster pistols," reports the New York Daily News. However, protesters call the shooting another example of police abuse and excessive force.

"There's too many of these going on," said 57-year-old protester and teacher Tina Medina, according to the L.A. Times. "If there's conflict, find some other way. That's someone's son."

"They can't kill Africa," chanted groups of protesters Tuesday morning as they marched to the LAPD headquarters from Skid Row. Protesters also carried signs that read, "Stop Modern Day Lynchings" and "End the Police State."

Inside originally identified the shooting victim as Charley Saturmin Robinet, a French national who was convicted of a bank robbery in Ventura County back in 2000. However, activists pointed out that the victim's past is irrelevant in the fatal shooting.

"If this man committed a crime, police didn't know that at the time, and there's a certain way to handle that," argued Earnest Freeman.

Following the march, demonstrators took advantage of the opportunity to speak out during a nearly two-hour police commission meeting on Tuesday. At one point during the meeting, a man repeatedly blew a whistle and yelled at the commission to "Wake up! Wake up!"

Other people argued that police are somewhat responsible for Africa's death.

"You can't tell me five officers can't take down one man. What about police training?" One homeless man told NBC4 Monday. "I think they treated him like they normally treat homeless people on Skid Row, with disrespect, with harassment."

"That man never was a threat," said Lonnie Franklin, who was across the street when the shooting happened, to the Times. "The amount of officers present at the time could have subdued him."