![]() To bring about a change in how police treat black people, "we got to come together for something that's right," he said. Although he didn't march, he said he considered their presence a positive thing. "I'm proud to say I've seen Black Panthers in person," said Ricky Pinkard, who works at a barbershop on MLK. (In the video above, the marchers are in the parking lot of Elaine's Kitchen, a brief stop before they headed down Malcolm X to their final destination, a car wash several blocks away.) Marcher Priest DeBrazier said the Panthers were there in response to the slaying of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri, but Goodson said the march had been planned before Brown's death August 9.Įither way, several people in the neighborhood joined the march, whether it was to protest police brutality, the situation in Ferguson or just poor race relations in general. Many marchers had Black Panther patches on their black fatigues. Newton Gun Club, which wants people to know they have the right to own guns. ![]() They marched to protest police brutality in general and to encourage gun ownership.Ī few groups were represented in the ranks of the marchers, said Charles Goodson, an organizer of the march and head of the Huey P. ![]() In the heat of a Wednesday afternoon, about 30 black men and a few women, dressed head-to-toe in black, stood with long guns slung around their shoulders. The woman in the passing car shouted, "Black power!" And the gun-rights advocates lined up on the sidewalk outside Forest Avenue Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Jr.
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