The morning began with a march to Syracuse’s city hall.
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“I am exhausted of being separated from everybody, honestly”. Spivey-Spinner asked. “It’s automatic, somebody will die tomorrow”.
“Nebraska isn’t going to stand for the systemic racism that we have in our country and in our police force”. About halfway through the march, members of Lifeway Church said “God bless you” as they handed out bottles of water to the protesters.
The White House, which is automatically required to respond to petitions with at least 100,000 signatures, said the USA government does not generate a domestic terror organization list and therefore could not address the petition. “Everybody wants to go home at night so I think some trust needs to be built”. “You can’t except somebody from Solvay to come and work on the north side when they know nothing about our neighborhoods”. “There hasn’t been any change, so we need change”.
At the end of the rally, the group formed a circle and several Elkton police officers, including Chief Matthew Donnelly held hands while Brown spoke.
“We have a right to life just as much as these officers do we are not threats we are human beings and that’s what this is about”, Horton said. Among them was Calvin Forest, 48, of Littleover, who said he attended the event after he was “disgusted” with what happened in the US. “Dead cops”, Trump labeled the group a “threat” that has “essentially” called “death to the police” even after the group formally condemned those words following that instance. He said he’s proud of the job the police department did working with the protesters to keep things relatively peaceful.
“Hell yeah, I’m angry”, she said.
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Kathy Watson, an Elkton resident, said she came to the protest because her two daughters wanted to participate and she wanted to make sure they were OK. What I don’t agree with is when they yell out in their demonstrations, as I’ve heard them do, “kill the police, kill the pigs, destroy police”.
