Six hundred or so people gathered in Oscar Grant Plaza Thursday afternoon, August 14th, beginning at 4:00 PM to take part in a National Moment of Silence for all those murdered by police.
After the moment of silence names of those executed such as Oscar Grant and Andy Lopez were read and then more were called out from the crowd: Alan Blueford, Ernest Duenez Jr, Kenneth Harding, to name but a few.
Jeralynn Blueford then spoke from the heart about the killing of yet another 18 year old, followed by others wondering “What was the next step?”
Here are some tweetpics from today’s event in the amphitheatre and from around the country.
Hands Up Don’t Shoot.
“Hands up! Don’t shoot!” #NMOS14 #Oakland pic.twitter.com/nWm0BgD5Gk
— George Kelly (@allaboutgeorge) August 14, 2014
Ferguson to Oakland
“Ferguson to Oakland, Mike Brown to Oscar Grant, Stop Police Terror Now!!” #NMOS14 pic.twitter.com/whygqAcQCr — Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) August 14, 2014
Jeralyn Blueford
Alan Blueford’s mother addresses the crowd: “We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired.” #NMOS14 #Oakland pic.twitter.com/pEgQRXwPfv
— Julia Wong (@juliacarriew) August 14, 2014
Birmingham
RT – DON’T SHOOT! #NMOS14 Birmingham, AL Rally in support of #Ferguson statue of MLK in background pic.twitter.com/Mdu1ltMxUq
— Candie Price (@yourprdiva) August 15, 2014
DC
Hands up, #dontshoot DC. #nmos14 pic.twitter.com/AXWndDOV3E — Andrew Panda Blake (@apblake) August 14, 2014
Overpass Light Brigade
@YourAnonNews “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” @NAACP pic.twitter.com/pib8cmGcTH — OverpassLightBrigade (@OLBLightBrigade) August 15, 2014
New York
Thousands of New Yorkers are staging a sit-in in Times Square chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” to support #Ferguson. pic.twitter.com/uIAl3SqnjJ
— (@theblogpirate) August 15, 2014
Los Angeles
#LAPD has just arrived… crowd immediately put their hands up and start chanting “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” #EzellFord pic.twitter.com/MD4xVOC10N
— Gadi Schwartz (@GadiNBCLA) August 15, 2014
Photo Credit: Daniela Kantorova – Flickr: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/dakini/14736769580/in/set-72157646485903185
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