A group of community organizers in Queens called for an end to police brutality during a protest on Sunday.
The protest, organized by the Justice Center en el Barrio in collaboration with a range of Queens community organizations, was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at 34th Avenue between 89th and 90th streets in Jackson Heights.
Organizers were expected to speak near the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights and express their support of police defunding and abolition while calling for justice for all victims of police violence, both named and unnamed.
According to the organizers, the protest seeks to peacefully display solidarity of Queen’s diverse population with the Black Lives Matter movement to show that that police violence and white supremacy are struggles that affect all communities and all countries.
The #Multinational #Protest Against #PoliceTerror in #JacksonHeights begins to gather pic.twitter.com/9GYFuNNyLK
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— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
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— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
#Multinational #Protesters begin to March against #PoliceTerror in #JacksonHeights #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/74M8SdAcJv
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
In the midst of chanting in the streets, the #Multinational #Protesters move aside for a Firetruck #BlackLivesMatters pic.twitter.com/xLTFqguQjs
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
#Multinational #Protesters get into a confrontation with #policeofficers as they #march for #BlackLivesMatters and against #PoliceTerror #QUEENS pic.twitter.com/POAU4Dni43
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
#Multinational #Protest #Organizers stop at a police barricade to speak with #protesters on #PoliceTerror in #JacksonHeights #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/jYP7zjsc3Z
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
#Multinational #Protesters chant in #Spanish against #PoliceTerror in #JacksonHeights #Queens #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/P8NiKib0bR
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
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— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 14, 2020
