Filmmaker Ava DuVernay spoke on Tuesday at a Black Lives Matter election day event at Staples Center, where she encouraged attendees to cast their votes in the 2020 election. "Thank you for holding space for this resistance, for this power, for this voice, for demonstrating who we are, that we can proclaim what we want, that we can exercise rights that are given to us and rights that we take that are not given to us, that we can declare what we want," said the filmmaker, wearing a face mask.