Millions March NYC - Thousands of American citizens took part in the Millions March held in New York City. The march was a protest against police brutality that has taken the lives of innocent victims like that of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner. In support of the deaths of the unarmed black men killed by cops, the hash tag #BlackLivesMatter trended on Twitter.
The Millions March NYC took place at Sixth Avenue and 29th Street. More than a thousand people took part in the protest, which took place for approximately two hours. In relation to the protest, thousands also took part in the social media campaign awareness with #BlackLivesMatter to #JusticeForAll trending on Twitter.
"My students are having a difficult time understanding how a police officer could shoot someone and not be indicted," says one attendee during the protest, Tawana Williams, an 8th grade teacher at Sankofa, adding, "At least go to court and examine the evidence. The students just can't understand."
According to the Millions March NYC official Facebook page, 50,000 people took part. Thousands of the people who had took part in the protest had even populated more than a mile of Fifth Avenue.
"Hundreds of Thousands came out to #NYC to join the #MillionsMarchNYC . (It went on for 42 blocks) This is incredible!" tweets one user, Being Black.
In relation to the Millions March NYC, traffic in the Brooklyn Bridge had to be shut down after more than a thousand protesters flocked the overpass. The march that took place on Saturday is reportedly the biggest and not to mention loudest of protests in the Big Apple since the official sentence of an NYPD officer was announced. Despite the unjustified death of Eric Garner, the NYPD officer involved was not indicted.
While most of the protesters who had joined the Millions March NYC were young, even the older generations, grandmas and grandpas alike, took part in the protest.
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