Congressional aides and some of the lawmakers they work for protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP
No explanation is given for the details of this photo opportunity. It is very similar to the pattern exhibited at Harvard University on the steps of Widner Library by students. How many of these congressional aides are working to destroy the nation? How many are simply useful idiots? Three autopsies determined that the teenager did not have his hands up when shot by the Missouri police officer. The underlying basis for these protests is false. These are the men and women who facilitated the abominable health care law.
Nearly 200 black Harvard affiliates posed with their hands up for a group photograph on the steps of Widener Library Sunday evening in solidarity with Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager killed three weeks ago in Ferguson, Missouri.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/8/31/demonstration-michael-brown-widener/
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The scene on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was like many across the country: People of color raised their hands in the now familiar “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture to protest the death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
Only this protest in Washington involved congressional aides who briefly walked off their jobs Thursday — angered by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York, and the decision by grand juries in both communities not to indict the police involved.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who joined the protest on the Capitol steps, said the action was meant to show how “incredibly frustrated” they are by the Brown and Garner deaths and “the mistrust” the protesters have in the criminal justice system.
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/12/11/protest-congressional-staff-brown-garner/
Congressional staff protest deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner
By: Catalina Camia
December 11, 2014 6:11 pm ET
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