We've all heard, the now cliche phrase. I think it was Al the asshole some years back that mostly started it.
Anyway, today in Seattle a black pastor led protesters while using the chant, through the streets.
Hopefully the violence won't catch on in other cities.
Is this irresponsible ? To me it is. In this case I interpret it to mean, that if Wilson isn't charged, then we're going to get violent. So to me this is nothing more than inciting violence.
Marchers hit the streets in Seattle to protest Ferguson ruling The Today File Seattle Times
Anyway, today in Seattle a black pastor led protesters while using the chant, through the streets.
Hopefully the violence won't catch on in other cities.
Is this irresponsible ? To me it is. In this case I interpret it to mean, that if Wilson isn't charged, then we're going to get violent. So to me this is nothing more than inciting violence.
Marchers hit the streets in Seattle to protest Ferguson ruling
Update at 1:32 p.m.: Protesters arrived at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle at 1:15 p.m. chanting, “No justice, no peace. No racist police ”
Many were high-school students, like David Morgan, 16, a junior at Garfield High School. Morgan said he was there “just to support all the black people in the past who have been wronged by police,” joining a crowd chanting “Black lives matter, black lives matter!”
“We are out here to support Mike Brown’s family and show our support to African Americans all around,” said senior Alyssa King, 17, president of the Garfield High School Black Student Union, which organized the student march. “It’s a peaceful protest because there’s been enough violence in the lives that have been taken.”
Update at 12:33 p.m.: Hundreds of chanting marchers have headed up East Union Street planning to peacefully protest at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle. They were accompanied by Mayor Ed Murray and Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole.
The marchers were vocal, chanting, “Hands up, Don’t shoot!” During the march they were joined by about 1,000 students from Garfield High School.
March organizer K.L. Shannon said, “This march is about outrage and just people are hurting right now.”
Shannon said protesters are demanding a federal indictment of police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, 18, in Ferguson, Mo.
Murray said he was invited to the march by black ministers, including Pastor Lawrence Willis, president of the United Black Christian Clergy of Washington (UBCCW).
Marchers hit the streets in Seattle to protest Ferguson ruling The Today File Seattle Times