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Tens of thousands join Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march in Washington DC

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Tens of thousands join Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march in Washington DC

  • Rally highlighted police brutality and voting rights
  • Event organised by NAN, NAACP and National Urban League

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington DC on Friday, demanding criminal justice reform and voting rights following a summer of protests against systemic racism and against police treatment of Black people.

The Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march, announced in early June following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, also marks the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I have a dream” speechurging racial equality.

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