Happy Juneteenth! I’m out today reporting on what’s happening in D.C. I’m really gonna try and do my best with Twitter today in this thread.
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This is the looming weather...one of the speakers just said they don’t care b/c they came out to protest, not to look cute!pic.twitter.com/VZ2fpqYe7t
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One speaker says, “we can not forget our trans sisters who are dying,” connects the march to pride month.pic.twitter.com/mAWoWwsU03
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It’s starting to rain a little bit. As speeches continue, these folks let me snap some photos of their signspic.twitter.com/CegedJ1hHg
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“this is not a barbecue,” one organizer says. Now that speeches are over, tells people to find 10 people immediately and talk to each other about why they came here today.
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Back at BLM Plaza. It’s packed. An organizer from Minneapolis is talking- they’re with Black Visions. The crowd cheers as they describe the push to defund and dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.
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April Goggans from BLM’s DC chapter. She starts by saying, let me tell you about DC. 700,000 people, 46% Black. Not a state. Now discussing Bowser’s proposed budget - says “she sounds just like Trump when she talks,” because she “actively harms Black people every f*cking day.”
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Goggans ends her speech: “Next time you think about DC, think about the Black people killed by MPD.”pic.twitter.com/K9r2YsJmkY
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A call and response: “The mandate for Black people in this time is earn the respect of future generations. The mandate for Black oeople in this time is to be willing to be transformed in the service of the work.”
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A big march left BLM plaza. Others stated and now there’s a big electric slide happening. Today contains every emotionpic.twitter.com/rOYDyvHNFZ
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I’m headed home- my colleague
@dbonessi will doing some more reporting in the evening. To give you a sense of how decentralized this whole day of rallies and protests had been, I ran into a Sunrise Movement march on my way homepic.twitter.com/sp51hpPmNi
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Ran into another march on U St. on my way home. Here, the message is clear. A big sign says “ABOLISH POL(I.C.E.)” and the group chants, “hey hey, ho ho, MPD has got to go”pic.twitter.com/fN07bERBbZ
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