Thousands march in Washington to protest police killings
Reuters
2014-12-13
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Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington on Saturday (December 13) to protest the killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement officers and to urge Congress to do more to protect African-Americans from what they say is unjustified police violence.
Organizers said the event and a parallel march in New York City 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 the issue of police treatment of minorities back on the national agenda.
Thousands of people assembled in Freedom Plaza, a couple of blocks from the White House, before setting off at noon on a three-mile march down Pennsylvania Avenue for a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington on Saturday (December 13) to protest the killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement officers and to urge Congress to do more to protect African-Americans from what they say is unjustified police violence.
Organizers said the event and a parallel march in New York City 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 the issue of police treatment of minorities back on the national agenda.
Thousands of people assembled in Freedom Plaza, a couple of blocks from the White House, before setting off at noon on a three-mile march down Pennsylvania Avenue for a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol.
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