(from UJP)
When: Monday, January 19, 2015, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Where: Old State House Boston, State Street & Washington St., Boston
4 Mile March to protest police repression of black community and related issues. 1 pm on Monday, January 19 at Old State House (Boston)
One demand calls for end of US interventions/imperialism abroad.
The group is responding to a national call named after the time (4 1/2 hours) Michael Brown’s body lay in the street. There was a long discussion of demands.
The group agreed with the following national demands for the march:
- civilian oversight committee to review incidents of police brutality;
- fear is not sufficient reason to use deadly force;
- body cameras for all uniformed officers;
- special independent prosecutors of police crimes;
- extend federal ban of racial profiling to local law enforcement;
- end prison industries that profit off prison labor;
- police always choose life over death, capture suspects alive for judicial proceedings;
- police must report illegal actions of other police;
- police have communications and diversity trainings appropriate to precinct;
- study sentencing based on race, gender and sexual orientation and set standards; skewed sentences to be reviewed.
The group agreed to the following locals demands for the march:
- jail killer cops;
- enact a living wage;
- defund prisons, fund communities;
- end mass incarceration;
- no to Boston Olympics, use money to fund communities;
- end US intervention around world, stop US imperialism
One Response to “4 Mile March Against Police Violence”
It was good to walk with so many others today to support important issues. Only a few times did the generalized or aggressive chants seem unlike the principles of Dr King in action. I hope as the movement grows it will do so with an even stronger message of solardarity a do peace………remembering not All Cops are Killer Cops, folks in office buildings don’t deserve to see marchers flip them the bird and no, you don’t spell racism, BPD……
It’s more we shall overcome, hand in hand, not afraid, don’t shot, justice now.
Thank you to all organizers for your hard work. Thank you to energy of marchers and police working peacefully while moving with the messages of change together.