Some police officers march and kneel with protesters, creating dissonant images on fraught weekend of uprisings
outside the courthouse in Spokane, in eastern Washington state, kneeling at the request of protesters instead of pushing them back. Police from Lafayette Square in Washington to Miami to Santa Cruz, Calif., have taken knees in solidarity.The gesture did not always diffuse the tension. Nor did it answer the underlying demands of protesters for an end to police brutality and the disproportionate targeting of black citizens.
Chris Freeman, a 31-year-old in Philadelphia, said protesters outside of City Hall were demanding police officers utter the words, “black lives matter,” focusing on black officers in particular.“People were in officers’ faces, asking, ‘Do you believe black lives matter?’” he said. “Sometimes there was silence. Sometimes they said, ‘all lives matter.’”
Acceding to the demands of protesters brought a rebuke in some places. In downtown Washington, a black officer who knelt was yanked from the crowd by his supervisor, and he returned standing to the line forming to hold back the demonstrations.At 15th and Penn, crowd chanting “Take a knee!” at a line of cops. And one did. He knelt down in the line. The crowd roared, and a supervisor yanked the officer by his collar out of the line. They argued briefly and he returned to the line.
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