June 10 (UPI) -- Local law enforcement is investigating the death of a man whose body was found on a downtown Los Angeles sidewalk early Tuesday morning, where protests and looting have occurred.

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call at 1:30 a.m. PDT regarding an unresponsive man on a sidewalk in the downtown area of West 3rd Street and Broadway, KTLA reported.

The unidentified man was dead, and his cause of death is being investigated.

Several businesses in the area were looted and vandalized at about the same time that the police received the emergency call.

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