More than 10,000 protesters march against police killings in DC
More than 10,000 protesters converged on the US capital Saturday to help bring attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and call for legislative action.
Led by several civil rights organizations, the crowd will march to the Capitol on Saturday afternoon with the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with white police officers. The Reverend Al Sharpton, a prominent civil rights advocate, also will be part of the march. The groups and marchers - with signs reading "Black Lives Matter" and "Who do you protect? Who do you serve" - are calling for law enforcement reforms after several high-profile cases of what they call police brutality.
At Freedom Plaza, the rally was interrupted briefly by a group of protesters who took the stage with a bullhorn. They announced that they were from Ferguson, Missouri - where Brown died - and demanded to speak.
Rally organizers called the interruption unnecessarily divisive. Speakers were delayed about five minutes as supporters of the interruption chanted, "Let them speak."
