More than 200 names from across the nation were read aloud at Italian Lake on Sunday as a way to remember Black and brown people who died at the hands of law enforcement through racialized violence.
in the wake of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer. The nonprofit organization supports African-American families whose unarmed loved ones resulted in being killed by law-enforcement.
“The purpose of this event is to bring awareness to the magnitude of the problem of unarmed African-American people being disproportionately killed by police and of course racialized violence. It didn’t just start today, it didn’t start on May 25, 2020. Its been going on since the beginning of time,” Stokes said.Joyce Davis, outreach and opinion editor for PennLive, introduced a new segment to the annual event by acknowledging eight different massacres, including.
Harrisburg resident Nathan DeMuro said it’s important to never forget about those who resulted in being injured or even killed due to police brutality. “What’s important about this is that we continue to acknowledge these people. Just because the headlines aren’t popping that doesn’t mean that these things happening and it doesn’t mean these circumstances are done,” DeMuro said. “We didn’t fix it and we’re still dealing with it [racism].”
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