#BlackLivesMatter activists continued to protest in Minneapolis this afternoon in an "Our Youth Deserve Justice" march for others killed by police, particularly Daunte Wright.
"We don't need your operation! No more military occupation!"
"The National Guard has got to go!"
One of the primary grievances of the "Our Youth Deserve Justice" march beyond the wider issues they discussed was the continued troop presence in Minneapolis.
Here is my full @N2Sreports raw video from tonight's "Youth Deserve Justice" march in #Minneapolis, which was organized by a coalition including BLM MN, Communities United Against Police Brutality, and CAIR-MN.
As always, all footage available to license
Trahern Crews, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, spoke out ahead of the march.
"Our youth are under attack," he said, emphasizing the future direction of the BLM movement to reform not only policing, but school systems.
Uncut video:
Jaylani Hussein, Executive Director of CAIR-MN:
"The next time they pull over a Black person, they should fear pulling that trigger because there's going to be accountability in this city," he said. "There's gonna be accountability in this state. We're fighting to save lives."
Here is my full, uncut @N2Sreports video of Jaylani Hussein, Executive Director of CAIR-MN, speaking out ahead of the "Our Youth Deserve Justice" march in Minneapolis.
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Japharii had been speaking out ahead of the Windsor Town Council meeting, where attendees spoke out against the Windsor Police Department, whose officers pepper-sprayed and a Black Army lieutenant and held him at gunpoint.
Japharii spoke to Wight County Sheriff's Deputies, who mostly were unwilling to talk but clarified that they are a separate law enforcement agency than the ones involved in recent controversies in the area.
Tonight @PBS premieres "American Insurrection" a Frontline piece I served as a consulting producer on and which features me on screen as well as my footage.
Toward the beginning of curfew, police fired rubber bullets through a fence at the crowd.
If you watch this clip closely, you'll hear that a woman yells in pain when an officer discharges the weapon through the fence.
"I'm really sick of just the police occupation in general, harassing Black people, white people, everybody," said one activist carrying an upside down American flag.
He says that as a white man, he doesn't have to worry about being shot over expired tags.