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In these troubling times, hundreds gathered Friday night for a "Black Lives Matter" rally at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit to voice concerns over the latest police shootings in St. Paul and Baton Rouge.
David Hicks of the Detroit News reports:
It was a rallying cry for the activists, performance artists, community residents and others who filled the massive demonstration and march to decry the fatal police shootings this week of African-American men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Those deaths have sparked outrage and protests nationwide.
The Detroit event was touted on social media as a “peaceful protest” associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. It was announced online hours before Thursday night’s sniper attack that left five Dallas officers dead.
Detroit Councilwoman Mary Sheffield spoke at the rally, the Detroit News reports.
"Protesting is good, but policy is just as important,” Sheffield said to applause. “We’ve got to change all of the systematic racism.
