New York, NY – Hundreds of people marched through the streets of midtown Manhattan on Thursday to protest the recent police-related shootings of two black men.
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The protesters first gathered in Union Square Park where they chanted “The people united, never be divided!” and “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!”
The protesters then left the park and began marching up Fifth Avenue as police scrambled to keep up.
Michael Houston, a 20-year-old Brooklyn student, said anger and lack of action brought him to the protest.
“It’s the definition of insanity,” Houston said. “How can we expect anything to be different when nothing changes.”
Lawrence Amsterdam, 35, another student from Brooklyn, decried what he called the police injustice.
“It’s supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. But the way I see it, it’s murder first and ask questions later,” Amsterdam said.
On Wednesday, a Minnesota officer fatally shot Philando Castile while he was in a car with a woman and a child in a St. Paul suburb. The aftermath of the shooting was purportedly livestreamed in a widely shared Facebook video.
A day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. That, too, was captured on a cellphone video.
If these incidents are investigated without political interference or agendas, then justice will be served. I am nauseated at the billing of this as racial profiling. It is simply untrue. The statistics, not that which gets reported by the liberal left media, do not reflect racial anything. And I disregard the agenda driven statements from some of the weaker intellects in the political world (BHO, LL, EH, and their ilk). If any of these cops are found guilty of murder, they should get their due consequence. But if there are groups looking to riot and loot, I wish them all to become the victims.
I think Netanyahu should condemn these shootings. Where’s the UN on this
A new generation of losers in the making.
The politically INcorrect truth is that data shows 75%of crime is committed by blacks..,that’s why cops have to have more to do the blacks,and sometimes violence against them is necessary.
The officers weren’t really intending to kill the black victims. They were just extremely careless in firing loaded guns at them. No grounds for guilt or prosecution in either case.