Hundreds Rally against US Police Brutality in Washington (+Photos)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Tasnim) – Hundreds of Americans poured into the streets of Washington on Saturday to condemn US police brutality and the ongoing killings of African-Americans.
According to Tasnim dispatches, the protesters gathered in front of Washington’s major museum and denounced the recent police killings of two African Americans.
On Tuesday, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in the southeastern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot dead Wednesday by a police officer near St. Paul, Minnesota.
The protesters were carrying banners reading, "Racism is the Disease. Revolution is the Cure!”, “Justice for Alton Sterling & and Philando Castile” and “Stop Racist Police Terror”.
Plain-clothes policemen were closely monitoring the situation.
“I am here today because I am a teacher. I discuss Washington’s social issues in my classes. I, as a teacher, condemn racism,” one of the protesters said.
Saturday’s protests followed demonstrations on Friday and similar ones on Thursday night in Dallas, Texas, where an armed US army reservist shot dead five white police officers and wounded seven others in an apparent retaliation for repeated police killings of unarmed African Americans across the country.
The shooter, identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, had served as an Army reservist from March 2009 until April 2015.
According to Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown, Johnson “was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings."
