Posted on 05/13/2015 4:03:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of people protested Wednesday in Wisconsin's capital and more than two dozen were arrested for blocking a road a day after a prosecutor ruled that a Madison police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager was justified.
Brandi Grayson, co-founder of the Young Gifted and Black Coalition that organized the protest, said the group wanted community control over the hiring and firing of officers and a U.N. probe into racial disparities in Dane County and Wisconsin.
"We don't have time-set goals. We understand the struggle for black liberation will be generational," Grayson said.
Lakaya Horton, 13, of Madison, got permission to go to the protest with her mother and a friend instead of school.
"No matter who you are, you should be charged for killing a person," Horton said, adding: "He should at least get a little bit of time."
Nearly all those arrested were being cited for obstructing the roadway and then released, Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said, describing their acts as peaceful civil disobedience.
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So go the courage-free revenge-minded.
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