Posted on 12/13/2014 6:32:23 AM PST by rktman
Thousands of demonstrators were expected in Washington and New York on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black men by U.S. police and to urge Congress to protect citizens.
Organizers said the protests would be among the largest over police tactics and the killings of black males by officers in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri.
The lack of criminal charges from grand juries in the New York and Ferguson cases have galvanized protests around the United States.
"We need more than just talk; we need legislative action that will shift things both on the books and in the streets," civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose National Action Alliance is heading the Washington protest, said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
Undocumented shoppers invade Washington and New York for early Christmas shopping ......
like the butchers in Mississippi.
Professional protesters paid by the democrat party
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