Residents protest to end police brutality. | Wikimedia Commons/Airickson
Residents protest to end police brutality. | Wikimedia Commons/Airickson
Residents of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids gathered Saturday in their cities to protest racial injustice and the death of George Floyd, an African American man who was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police while in custody, KCRG reported.
The protests were separate, but had the same message: Stop police brutality.
"They’re tired,” Johnson City Supervisor Royce Ann Porter told the news agency. “People are not being heard. It should not have come to looting and rioting. If that’s the only way that the people are going to hear us that’s what they are going to do. That’s why they do it. So that we can get the message across that we had a murderer at home and he needed to be arrested.”
Tina Deng of Black Lives Matter told the news agency that the protesters would be peaceful, but they just wanted to see some change.
“We are black and white standing together to fight for people,” Deng told the news agency. “We’re all one person. We bleed red; we have the same heart, and our skin tone shouldn’t change that. We didn’t choose our skin tone; it was given to us.”
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