It’s nearly been a year since Mike Brown was gunned down by a cop on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Last summer saw a raft of rallies, protests, marches, and remembrances for the 18-year-old. But he hasn’t been forgotten amid the wave of police-involved killings that sparked what some people argue is a new civil rights movement.
The Stop Police Terror Project DC plans to mark the eve of the anniversary of Brown’s death with a protest beginning at the African American Civil Memorial at 7 p.m. on Saturday. More than 400 people have indicated that they plan to attend.
“The recent deaths of Sandra Bland in Texas and Kindra Chapman Alabama, both at the hands of police, show the need to continue struggling against racist police terror and to show that we will not stand for the ongoing brutalization and killing of Black people in America,” the event invitation reads. They plan to “rally and march in the memory of Mike Brown and other victims of police killings.”
The Stop Police Terror Project DC grew out of DCFerguson, the organization behind many of the protests in the past year. A group of people who said they were the “core organizing group” decided to continue the work under a new name after the DCFerguson social media accounts were “seized by an individual without authorization.” The core organizers of the Stop Police Terror Project DC include Eugene Puryear, Sean A. Blackmon, Tiffany Flowers, and Yasmina Mrabet. They didn’t answer requests for comment at the time about the cause of the split.
Rachel Sadon