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Postal workers will join the family of Tyson Barnette this evening—a 26-year-old postal worker who was gunned down in Prince George’s County while delivering mail after dark last November—to protest mail delivery after the sun goes down.
The rally will kick off at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at 5:30 p.m. At 6 p.m. protesters will march to the U.S. Postal Service headquarters located at L’Enfant Plaza, where postal workers will speak about the dangers of delivering mail after dark.
The Herald Online reports that the rally was set up by postal workers in response to the shooting death of Barnette. On November 23, Barnette—a mail carrier in Prince George’s County—was shot and killed while delivering mail. Barnette’s killer has yet to be found, and a $125,000 reward has been offered by the federal government and Maryland police to anyone who has any information that could lead to an arrest.
The rally will also address concerns about the working condition for postal service workers. Since African American employees make up 21 percent of the nation’s postal workers, organizers decided to hold the rally on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. King was killed while protesting for the rights of garbage workers in Memphis, Tenn. in 1968.
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