“If you don’t tell us anything, we’ll think you’re doing nothing,” Johnson said in a speech, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
The death of Taylor, who returned to fame after the May 25 suffocation in George Floyd police custody by Minneapolis, has become a rallying cry in national protests against police brutality and racial prejudice in the system. of criminal justice of the United States.
The NFAC first came to attention on July 4 when they demonstrated in Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta, to demand the removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism.
In Louisville on Saturday, three members of the group were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries when a weapon was accidentally fired, police said.
On Saturday, in the suburban Denver suburb of Aurora, a car passed through a crowd and a protester was shot during protests against racial injustice.
The Aurora Police Department said on Twitter that protesters were walking on Interstate 225 on Saturday when a vehicle entered.
Police said a protester fired a weapon and hit at least one person who was transferred to a hospital in stable condition.
Authorities said the vehicle was towed and are investigating. Protesters also smashed court windows and a fire started in an office, police said. An illegal assembly was declared and the police ordered the protesters to leave the area, authorities said.
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