Posted on 05/26/2021 5:26:07 PM PDT by simpson96
MANHATTAN — Several activists and mayoral candidate Shaun Donovan were arrested Tuesday morning during a small demonstration in Lower Manhattan marking the anniversary of George Floyd’s death.(snip)
The demonstration started around 9:30 a.m. at Canal and West streets, near the Holland Tunnel.
Donovan and Newsome were joined by Rev. Kevin McCall, attorney Sandford Rubenstein, and several other civil rights activists. The group marched a short distance, then knelt on the ground in the middle of the street for 9 minutes and 29 seconds — the length of time that former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck one year ago.(snip)
“I’m here standing with New York City mayoral candidate Shaun Dononvan, who is now my cellmate,” McCall said. “We just finished performing as we call civil disobedience for justice … Sometimes you need to do things that turn up the temperature for justice … So we disrupted and performed civil disobedience … but it’s about change. It’s about reform.”
Donovan said he asked McCall if he could join Tuesday’s demonstration and civil disobedience “to be an ally in the struggle.”
“I am gratified that Derek Chauvin was held accountable, but I want to be clear that accountability is not justice. Real justice is what we were kneeling for today for 9 minutes and 29 seconds,” Donovan said. “Real justice means that fathers of Black children in this city, mothers of Black children in this city don’t have to worry that their children will not come home when they walk to the store, when they go for a drive. And as someone who has not had to worry about that for my sons … I am grateful but I am also angry.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pix11.com ...
My ID for useful is “useless idiots”
They should have been run over and killed so they would feel his pain
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.