Hundreds March Into D.C. Across Arlington Memorial Bridge Demanding Justice For George Floyd
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Source: WUSA9
(4 hrs. ago). Hundreds of peaceful protesters - numbering by some estimates anywhere from one-to-two thousand - marched from Virginia into D.C. across the Arlington Memorial Bridge on Saturday, turning the half-mile bridge into a walking demonstration.
Holding signs and their hands in the air, the marchers chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot," as they marched for more than an hour into the city. "I think it's injustice and system racism," one marcher told WUSA9. "I think we all have to stand up against that and stand with the people who are demanding dismantling systemic racism and how the police profile black people and people of color."
The Arlington March for Black Lives, as it was called, began at the Arlington Courthouse. Its route took it past the Iwo Jim Memorial and then across Arlington Memorial Bridge to join other groups at the Lincoln Memorial and then Lafayette Park.
At the Lincoln Memorial, demonstrators joined others in taking part of a long legacy of civil rights activism on the steps of the monument, dating back at least to 1939, when black singer Marian Anderson held a concert there after being refused space at Constitution Hall...SEE Video.
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Lafayette Park, at the end of the route is where some of the most serious conflicts between protesters and security occurred, involving tear gas used against demonstrators Sunday night and clearing out of the park before a Trump photo-op at historic St. John's Church on Monday.
*UPDATE: 'Racism Is A Pandemic, Too.' Thousands Descend On DC In Biggest Protest Yet In Response To The Death Of George Floyd,' WUSA9, June 6, 2020, Updated 10:53 PM. *SEE VIDEO...
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/heres-what-dc-george-floyd-protests-look-like-day-9-saturday-black-lives-matter-police-brutality/65-739a0050-f835-4842-80bc-7eddc69e8b95
- Protesters demand justice for George Floyd In D.C. on Saturday, June 6, 2020.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)That's not easy in the DC heat and humidity this time of year.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)appalachiablue
(41,048 posts)from 10:53 PM last night came online noting the crowd was in the thousands: (It's posted in the OP above at the end). It was a huge, peaceful event on a beautiful day in D.C.
'Thousands Descend On DC In Largest Protest Seen Yet'
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/heres-what-dc-george-floyd-protests-look-like-day-9-saturday-black-lives-matter-police-brutality/65-739a0050-f835-4842-80bc-7eddc69e8b95