BlackLivesMatter today, tomorrow, always.
notes that "all four officers involved in the [murder of George Floyd] were fired by Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo." In June, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that he will "seek to identify $100 million to $150 million in cuts from the LAPD." And in Minneapolis, the city council voted unanimously "to require police officers to intervene anytime they see unauthorized use of force by another officer and to ban police chokeholds altogether.
"The occupation of 'George Floyd Ave.,' the place where he was murdered, is an act of resilience or a protest. We have been occupying that space every day since George Floyd was lynched. Folks are protesting for change in the simplest terms," Omeoga said. "Folks are protesting for Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Riah Milton, and Dominique Fells.
"There's been an erasure of what we are really protesting for, like the Black LGBTQ community or the Black immigrants — all Black lives matter," Woods said. "We've been doing this anti-racism work since before Trump got into office. We've been planning, coordinating, and doing the type of work that doesn’t get on the news for a long time."tracking the progress of protests in major cities like New York and it's important to continue to spread the word.
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