WASHINGTON — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates on Friday denounced police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
“We are like the nameless grandmothers who got in the streets and said, ‘We will make you live up to what America says she is,’” Williams said. “We are here. We’re not going anywhere.” Story continuesParticipants streaming in for the march late Friday morning stood in lines that stretched for several blocks, as organizers insisted on taking temperatures as part of coronavirus protocols. Organizers reminded attendees to practice social distancing and wear masks throughout the program.
Turnout in Washington was expected to be lighter than initially intended due to city-imposed coronavirus pandemic restrictions that limit out-of-state visitors to the nation’s capital. To that end, the National Action Network organized a handful of satellite march events in South Carolina, Florida and Nevada, among others.
“I stand here in the spirit of our brother Bayard Rustin,” he said, referring to the King adviser who helped organize the original march. “Without his brilliance and his commitment to our intersectional social justice, there would not have been a March on Washington.”
How is it that this wack job works for a major network at the same time he's out being a public racist
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you HYPOCRITES! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces...” Mt 23
One must feel extremely sorry for the Black Community, who's leadership has been Usurped by some of the worst Racists and Con Artists in the USA. Take Sharpton and Jackson, who have been recorded on various outlets, uttering the worst Racist garbage, and today denying all of it!
Why would he do that for a criminal that was resisting arrest for violence and armed with a knife
Chicago...
the mony they have and all they do is talk talk and talk --why don't he set up education camps drug rehab and build housing
Only Black lives matter!
i really don't get it. Is it so hard to not resist an arrest?
Jacob wouldn't be in the hospital if he acted differently. He has a record of domestic abuse, and an outstanding warrant for child abuse. Not surprising that TheRevAl would be sanctifying him.
Once again we hear from Al Not-Too-Sharpton...
Trump is too afraid to even speak one name of ANY of the black lives that have been taken by police. He’s the biggest coward on the face of the earth.
Why do you speak when you're a TAX CHEAT!! Pay your damn taxes. Help the poor.
AL AT 4YR Rehearsing
BOOOOOO WHOOOOO PAY YOUR TAXES AL
Oooooh Trump....look at all of those people that can easily put you out of the WH crying!!
And how do you have the right too call out The President when YOU are a Tax Dodger?
Has Sharpton ever had a real job
Hoodlum...... young hoodlum. Not a man
This is all a big joke to them. There’s nothing more corrupt than a U.S politician
EASY
Because he’s a rapist criminal felon? And believe me I am NO trump fan. He belongs in prison too
And the race-baiting continues. Al is just looking for another paycheck. Nothing more.
He resisted arrest. Dumb guy
If you were to look at the police as a industry, You know like the one you work at. You would know there is always that one or two lazy coworker. Well it's no different when it comes to the police. Do you riot at your industry? NO. Then why would you when it comes to the Police?
Oh the race baiter at it again. The guy was breaking the law. Or don't we have that in this country? He also had a warrant. He also had a knife. I hope you TheRevAl and yahoo can explain away this to me. Thank you.
This is how the reverend Al gets paid, folks. shakedown
Al Sharpton, how much are you charging the fools today?
Lol, he shouldn’t have been at a woman’s house harassing her with an open warrant for his arrest for domestic abuse and sexual assault and then resisting and fighting the cops when they showed up.🤷🏽♂️
Because he is a rapist that resisted arrest?
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