These are just a few of the reasons demonstrators say they showed up to protest yesterday: 'My son asked me, 'Am I going to live to be a grown-up?'' 'I don’t put my money where my mouth is enough.' 'I couldn’t stay silent and watch this happen again.'
"There needs to be change": Demonstrators show solidarity and call for end to police brutalityProtesters who gathered in cities across the United States told CNN of their frustration over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.told CNN's Nick Valencia as he was being detained by police.Chelsea Peterson, in Portland, Oregon, told CNN she demonstrated Friday night to"show my solidarity with my black brothers and sisters" as they face injustice.
Peterson said it was"not enough to simply share a post or use a hashtag" to insist that black lives matter. In Minneapolis, Alicia Smith, a community organizer, told CNN:"There are no words in the English language that will convey the despair that I felt watching that man's life leave his body and him scream out for his mother. I heard my son saying, 'Mama, save me.'
Another protester, Craig Maxwell, in Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN he turned out to demonstrate because he felt the need to step up his advocacy.
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