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Washington, New York marchers protest police killings

Thousands of marchers gathered in Washington and New York on Saturday to protest killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement officers and to urge Congress to do more to protect blacks from unjustified police violence.

 

Organizers said the marches would rank among the largest in the recent wave of protests against the killings of black males by officers in Ferguson, Missouri; New York; Cleveland; and elsewhere.

 

Decisions by grand juries to return no indictments against the officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York have put police treatment of minorities back on the national agenda.

 

"We're going to keep the light on Mike Brown ... on all of the victims. The only way you make roaches run is to keep the light on," said civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton, whose National Action Network organized the Washington rally.

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.13.14, 23:59