Chilly temperatures and cloudy skies couldn’t keep hundreds of people from gathering to fill downtown streets Sunday to express outrage, fear and resolve in the wake of this month’s fat…
OAKLAND — Chilly temperatures and cloudy skies couldn’t keep hundreds of people from gathering to fill downtown streets Sunday to express outrage, fear and resolve in the wake of this month’s fatal police beating of a Memphis man.
“We’re also out here for Keenan Anderson, and we’re out here for Oscar Sanchez and we’re out here for the dozen or so folks that law enforcement across this country has murdered within the first month of 2023,” organizer and Anti Police-Terror Project co-founder Cat Brooks said before the rally began at 5 pm., with attendees filling Broadway between 14th and 17th streets.
Brooks also addressed the impact of the video, whose release was delayed until last Friday, on community members. When asked if she had any message for people unable to attend, Edwell acknowledged that some would need to protect themselves from harms, but also drew connections to larger forms of societal violence: “I’m incredibly privileged in a lot of ways, and I’m called forth to use my my position now. There’s no being on the sidelines anymore.”
At one point, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price joined speakers in addressing the crowd, urging them to hold her office accountable for its administration of justice. As the crowd began to march south along Broadway toward its intersection with Seventh Street outside the Oakland police administrative building, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice co-founder George Galvis pushed back against incremental reforms that many activists and citizens worked to implement in the wake of George Floyd’s death more than two years ago at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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