Predominantly Black armed protesters march through Confederate memorial park in Georgia | Malay Mail

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ATLANTA, July 4 — A predominantly Black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta yesterday, calling for removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism. Video footage of the Independence...

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Video footage of the Independence Day rally posted on social media showed scores of demonstrators dressed in black — many in paramilitary-style clothing and all wearing face scarves — quietly parading several abreast down a sidewalk at the park. “I don't see no white militia,” he declared. “We're here. Where ... you at? We're in your house. Let's go.

“We understand the sensitivities of the issue here at the park ... so we respect that and allow them to come in as long as it's peaceful, which it has been.”

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