Protesters in Escondido speak out against police brutality after deaths of Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson [Breaking]
Outrage over the recent deaths of two men at the hands of law enforcement officers in Memphis and Los Angeles prompted around two dozen protesters in Escondido to speak out against police brutality on Sunday.
Nichols, a 29-year-old father and FedEx employee, died three days later from his injuries. Anderson, a 31-year-old father and 10th grade teacher, died several hours after his encounter with police.“Whatever happened to cops peacefully handling situations?” Dario Miller, 15, asked Sunday during the protest outside Escondido City Hall. “Whatever happened to cops protecting people?”
The Rev. Sharon Wylie of Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Escondido recalled the protests across the nation after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Although the officers charged in Nichols’ death are Black, “what we know is that the blue of that uniform meant more to them than the Black of their skin,” said Mali Woods-Drake, president of Encinitas 4 Equality. “And the problem lies in the blue of that uniform.”
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