{"id":86459,"date":"2020-06-07T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=86459"},"modified":"2020-06-07T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:36:50","slug":"auto-draft-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/06\/07\/auto-draft-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Fill Streets for Racial Justice, Police Reform Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, in other U.S. cities and around the globe Saturday, rallying against racism and police brutality nearly two weeks after an African American man died in police custody.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations demanding racial justice and systemic policing reforms erupted in cities across America and have continued daily after George Floyd\u2019s May 25 death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd\u2019s neck for nearly 9 minutes as Floyd gasped that he could not breathe. It was the latest of many deaths among black Americans while in police custody.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterward, in protests in cities around the globe, people of all ages and races chanted in solidarity, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe,\u201d which were among Floyd\u2019s last words.<\/p>\n

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Demonstrators protest June 6, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the U.S. capital, peaceful protesters marched on a hot and humid afternoon in many neighborhoods, as well as at the U.S. Capitol and along the National Mall.<\/p>\n

Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke in the late afternoon to a large crowd at the newly designated Black Lives Matter Plaza, just north of Lafayette Park and the White House. Bowser on Friday had local artists paint \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d in large yellow letters over several blocks of 16th Street Northwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so wonderful to see everyone peacefully protesting, wearing their masks,\u201d the mayor told the crowd, according to The Hill<\/em>. She also urged the crowd to be loud in demanding \u201cmore justice and more peace,\u201d The Hill reported.<\/p>\n

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