Thousands of diverse people united by anger took to the streets from
New York City to San Francisco for a second time to protest a grand jury
clearing a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed
black man. AP reports:
Grandparents marched with their grandchildren.
Experienced activists stood alongside newcomers, and protesters of all
colors chanted slogans.
“We’re under siege and it has to stop,” Harlem resident Judy Edwards
said at a rally Thursday night in lower Manhattan’s Foley Square.
The 61-year-old black woman was accompanied by her daughter and twin
10-year-old grandchildren, a boy and a girl. She said it was important
to her that the children saw a crowd that was racially mixed and diverse
in many other ways all insisting upon the same thing — that something
must be done.
That was the message, too, in cities across America: Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis Oakland, San Francisco and
Washington, D.C., among them. Sign-carrying, chanting demonstrators
marched down heavily-traveled streets and shut down highways and
bridges. Politicians talked about the need for better police training,
body cameras and changes in the grand jury process to restore faith in
the legal system.
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