On Thursday, a gathering of black congressional staffers and other Capitol employees walked out in protest of the recent grand jury decisions failing to indict the two officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown. They raised their hands in the air, invoking the last words of Brown’s “Hands up, don’t shoot”, protesting of the killing of unarmed black men by police.
This planned protest came days after protest have been taking place all over the country, where demonstrators have stopped traffic, marched down small streets, major highways, closed malls and laid in the street.
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They bowed their heads as Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black prayed, “Forgive us when we have failed to lift our voices for those who couldn’t speak or breathe for themselves” — emphasizing “breathe” in reference to Eric Garner, who died after a policeman grabbed him in a chokehold in New York.
“May we not forget that in our history injustice has often been maintained because good people failed to promptly act,” Black said, with well over 100 people standing behind him.
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