Million Moms March for JUSTICE

[sheshe2]

ICYMI- Because it was just a blip on the TV screen.

Mothers and protesters rally in D.C. to demand police reforms

They wore photos of their dead sons’ faces on buttons pinned to their chests, like joyless Mother’s Day corsages. They wore T-shirts emblazoned with their dead sons’ names. They carried signs that read, “Stop Racist Police Terror” and “We Are Not Criminals” and “They are ALL our sons.”

Like incantations, they chanted the names of their unarmed sons who they said were shot in the back, shot point blank in the chest, shot 14 times, shot on their bikes, shot in parks, shot after leaving a dance, or left to bleed to death in the street. They chanted the names of those whose deaths inflamed a nation: Freddie Gray. Michael Brown. Amadou Diallo. Tony Robinson. And the names of those perhaps remembered only by the grieving mothers themselves, such as Tremaine Flythe, who was shot by two D.C. police officers while walking to his mother’s house for breakfast the day after Christmas in 2009.





Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United, told USA Today she and her fellow moms were tired of being ignored.

“This is a call for everybody to wake up. We are here on behalf of our babies to tell the United States government that we aren’t going anywhere. We aren’t going to continue to keep burying our babies. Do something and do it now.”

Read More http://3chicspolitico.com/2015/05/10/million-moms-march-for-justice/

[libdem4life]

1. Impressing and Sobering. I hope it will help to have a Black Woman as AG...and hopefully

Our Black President will lend his authority, as well.

We try and make this not about race, but good lord, that is a sea of Black Mothers and this is a difficult day, to say the least. I don't know what I'd do if someone shot my son...especially if there was nothing I could do about it. Sending good energy to all of them and their families.

[sheshe2]

3. Our New AG is investigating, so was Holder.

I know what you mean, libdem. Mothers Day.

[Iliyah]

2. The corporate media care less about whats happening in real like America

and only care about tea baggers who call the first Black President a monkey.

[sheshe2]

4. ^^^^This^^^^

[freshwest]

5. K&R!

[sheshe2]

6. I so love you, freshwest!