Americans Protest Police Brutality

According to RT:

Dozens of cities across the US have seen a national day of protest against police brutality. Organizers stated that thousands of people were killed in crackdowns over the last couple of decades, and police aren’t held accountable for the violence.

The demonstrators in Seattle burned flags, and the police had to disperse fights between the protesters and the anarchists who seemed to have taken advantage of the situation.

In Los Angeles, an angry mob stopped traffic across the city as part of the protest.

New York saw a largely peaceful rally, though activists expressed their outrage at continuing police violence.

“It’s not a gentle thing how they treat us, they treat us like animals, and that’s completely unwarranted, literally, unwarranted,” a young protester told RT.

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“Hundreds every year are killed by the police, and the majority of them are unarmed, not involved in any criminal activity when they were killed. And also the majority of them were young, and either black or Latino,” Carl Dix, representative for ‘October 22 Coalition’ tom stop police brutality, indicated to RT.  

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“The mass media are very good at propaganda, so a lot of people are under the impression that people who have been stopped and frisked and are being gunned down are somehow criminals,” activist Gil Barosa told RT.

Americans are waking up and realizing that they have power, they have a voice and that they have the right to peacefully assemble to petition the government for a redress of grievances.  General occupations are turning into specialized movements.  While the October 22 movement has been around for a few years, I feel like this year it has attracted more attention than in the past.

Sadly it may be too late.  

Many of you are awakening, but you're still just raising from your slumber wondering what it is that woke you up and what you can do about it.  It's great that the masses are finally joining us, I'm just scared that the more we start to demand change, the quicker the elites will drop the other shoe.  Such in the thin line we tread.  

Check out the official site for the event at october22.org.