#NMOS14: Vigils to honor victims, protest police action
Source: USA Today
Today at 7 p.m. ET, from Hawaii to New York, hundreds of groups plan to take to their communities in the U.S. in peaceful protest of what they describe as excessive police force.
It all began with the Twitter hashtag #NMOS14, which calls for a national moment of silence, coming days after unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo.
"It's not just Ferguson. Police brutality is pervasive. It's happening in so many cities," New York-based social worker and community activist known online as Feminista Jones told the USA TODAY Network.
After an activist posted on Twitter that there would be a vigil in downtown Manhattan for Brown, Feminista Jones reached out.
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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/08/14/national-moment-of-silence-nmos14/14045233/
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