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Updated June 7th, 2020 at 10:42 IST

Protest in LA French Quarter against injustices

Thousands of people gathered around Jackson Square in the French Quarter Friday evening for an hours-long protest against racial injustice in America, and after several hours, as night fell, the demonstration ended peacefully.

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Thousands of people gathered around Jackson Square in the French Quarter Friday evening for an hours-long protest against racial injustice in America, and after several hours, as night fell, the demonstration ended peacefully.

Jackson Square itself was blocked off to the public, as demonstrators called for the removal of the statue at its center and other Confederate symbols across America.

"We know that we cannot exist in a place of justice and equity for black and brown and marginalized and oppressed people if we are raising up our boys and girls and our young siblings to look at symbols that represent a system that's against them," said one of the demonstrators from New Orleans who goes by the name 'A Scribe Called Quess'.

He told the crowd, many holding signs with pictures and names of black men killed by police, "the patterns and the trends ain't changed much over 300 years."

Protests in New Orleans have been peaceful, except for Wednesday night, when demonstrators attempted to push past a police line on the Crescent City Connection bridge, and officers deployed two tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.

The protests are part of a nationwide movement against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.

 

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Published June 7th, 2020 at 10:42 IST

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