Authorities say hundreds of people marched through the streets and shops of downtown Seattle as part of a Black Lives Matter protest on Black Friday.
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Minneapolis Black Lives Matter protesters paused on Thursday to share a community Thanksgiving Day meal on the spot outside a police station where they have been demonstrating for more than a week over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. It is not clear if the masked trio participated in the demonstration. Police said he was reaching for an officer’s gun when he was shot.
Dozens of shoppers took pictures and videos with their cellphones as the crowd walked through Macy’s, stopped briefly at the ice skating rink on the first floor and went up and down escalators.
The shooting took place near a police precinct where demonstrations were taking place.
“We’re here for Jamar”, one said, according to Habu.
The Shiloh Temple International Ministries is about a mile from the 4th Precinct police station where protesters have gathered since Clark’s shooting and near where Clark was shot.
Prosecutors in Minnesota say they’ll announce charges against four men who were arrested after shots were fired at demonstrators protesting the killing of a black man by police.
Bishop Richard Howell praised protesters for pressure that he said helped get a federal criminal civil rights investigation and the names of the officers involved.
Since the vigil began, harsh words have been exchanged and some property damage has occurred, but for the most part the protests have been peaceful.
Mayor Betsy Hodges said Monday the protest should end. “We’re not trying to put anybody down, but we all need to be aware that this is happening. So, you know, it really hurts, and you know, I fight for them”. None of the protesters suffered life-threatening injuries. They wore sandwich boards that read “Repend or Perish”, “Turn or burn in hell” and “Judgement is coming”.
Event organizers say racism is thriving in our communities, especially after two men with northland ties, who they called “white supremacists”, were arrested in connection to the shootings.
“Thank God for gentrification”, one of the men yelled into a megaphone.
Black Lives Matter rallied in Cincinnati Friday, moving through Over-the-Rhine to the Hamilton County Courthouse. The majority of the crowd ignored the trio.
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Before the group blocked traffic, they marched from downtown Duluth to Bentleyville.
