OUT & ABOUT
LOCAL PROTESTS AGAINST COP’S
KILLING OF MIKE BROWN
RALEIGH, NC RALLY - On Sunday August 17, on the steps of the Wake County Courthouse on Fayetteville Street, speakers
addressed the crowd for about 45 minutes about police brutality, longtime oppression, white supremacy and white-dominated
media. Among the signs carried by the protesters: “Blacks Are People Too.” “Who Needs the KKK When You Have Racist
Police?” “What Ever Happened to Protect and Serve?” (Photos: Renaldo Jackson)
“CEASE FIRE” RALLY IN NEWPORT NEWS, VA. - The Holy Ghost Fire Outreach
Ministry, Abu Unity Foundation, Restoration & Faith Ministry and Nation of
Islam organized a “Michael Brown Cease Fire” March & Rally on August 20 in
Newport News, Virginia. In the photo (Above under “I AM MIKE BROWN” Sign) are
Congressman Robert “Bobby” Scott (D-3), march organizer Bishop Kendrick Turner
(middle) and Newport News City Councilwoman Sharon P. Scott. The protestors
marched to the Newport News South police precinct. (Photos: Randy Singleton)
NCCU “HANDS UP” RALLY - Led by North Carolina Central University Chancellor
Debra Saunders-White (center), students and faculty at NCCU’s School of Law
conducted a “Hands Up” rally August 25th to protest police brutality nationwide,
and honor the memory of Michael Brown, the 18 year-old black youth fatally shot
by a police officer Aug. 9th in Ferguson, Mo. {photo courtesy of NCCU]
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