Tens of thousands of protesters demanding an end to racial injustice and police brutality have thronged the US capital, in a sign of a renewed groundswell of anger gripping the nation following a white officer's shooting of African American Jacob Blake.
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding an end to racial injustice and police brutality have thronged the US capital, in a sign of a renewed groundswell of anger gripping the nation following a white officer's shooting of African American Jacob Blake.
"What we need is change and we're at a point where we can get that change," Ms Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, said.Like his father did 57 years ago, Rev King's son, Martin Luther King III, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before the vast crowd lining a reflecting pool and urged Americans to keep fighting inequality between whites and people of color - and to vote in November at all cost to defeat President Donald Trump.
As she headed toward the shopping centre, Karisha Harvey, 46 and black, held a poster depicting a weeping Statue of Liberty cradling a crying baby swaddled in American flag.Bridgett Floyd, the sister of George Floyd, is flanked by Rev. Al Sharpton, her brother Philonise and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.Her companion Cortney Smith, white and also 46, said,"I'm sick of hearing about a black man getting killed in the street every week".
Many at the protest expressed fury at news that Mr Blake is shackled to his hospital bed even though he is paralysed. He has reportedly since been released from handcuffs, his attorney told US media. Authorities identified the officer who opened fire as Rusten Sheskey, saying police were attempting to arrest Mr Blake and had tried to subdue him with a stun gun. They added that a knife had been found in his car.
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