Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in Washington, DC, to demand justice, that the issues raised after the killing of black people after the lapses committed by the police controversies and wide in the country. Saturday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Washington, the American city that has seen the former major marches for civil rights, for justice in cases involving the murder of black people at the hands of policemen eggs. And organize the demonstration at the initiative of the Rev. Al Sharpton, a leading figure in the field of city rights in the United States, dubbed Justice for All. Brought together members of my family, especially Michael Brown and Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, all Americans of African descent were killed by policemen eggs in the past months. Raised these people killed by violent protests against racism in recent weeks across the country. It is expected to witness a demonstration Saturday high participation rate, where thousands of people gathered, most of them black quietly pm at Freedom Square in the city center. The head protesters amid tight security, to the Capitol building near Congress, starting at 17.00 T.g. The protesters were mostly young men chanting No justice, no peace. And successively several speakers on the platform set up in front of crowds gathering place. Said Laura Murphy of the defense of individual liberties Society of the United States call for Congress to adopt a law against linkage between ethnic descriptions and behavior. We must stop this as of now. We are here today, and well be there tomorrow, and we will stay until the work is done. Dozens of people came from Ferguson, the city in Missouri where he killed Michael Brown in August / August Young said, It is good, we are a family and are united. And threw Eric Garner wife who spent asphyxiation in July while in detention violently by police in New York, the word also said the Im not exist here in order to participate in the demonstration for Eric Garner only but for all your girls and your sons and your families. The demonstrators chanted slogans many anti-racism similar to the disease of racism and revolution is the solution, or Stop the killer cops, and Do not shoot, Im white, or even blacks have a life of value. He said one of the protesters and called Amer Abu Bakr (32 years), which hails from Somalia, in this country, be assessed according to the external appearance, but we are not jihadists and extremists, we are ordinary people. He held a sign reading Will I be next? Any exposure to police violence. Banners that read, I can not breathe, in the words of Eric restore Garner, who spent the last at the age of 43 years in a Staten Island borough of New York in July after he choked by policemen while trying to arrest. And also participates in a demonstration of Washington members of the family of the young man Treifun Martin Black, aged 17 years and who was killed in February 2012 in Florida shot by a guard as he walked without a weapon in a residential neighborhood. Michael Brown and murder (18 years) during an altercation with a police officer at the beginning of August / August in Ferguson. The Tamir Rice (12 years) was shot and killed by a police officer at the Cleveland (Ohio) in November end. ACAI Gourlay also killed 28-year-white policeman shot dead in November end also in Brooklyn in an accidental shooting. Haita jury decided not to prosecute the police officers involved in the death of Michael Brown and Eric Garner what caused numerous demonstrations demanding the realization of justice in several major American cities in the past few days. France 24 / AFP
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:13:26 +0000
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