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1st March 2016, 05:01 PM
http://abc11.com/news/police-shooting-protest-march-blocks-traffic-in-raleigh/1226116/
RALEIGH (WTVD) --
A police-shooting protest march blocked traffic from southeast Raleigh to downtown on Tuesday.
With a police escort leading the way, the protesters marched to downtown Raleigh and gathered outside the Wake County Courthouse briefly before continuing the march through downtown, turning the corner to Fayetteville Street. They later walked back to the southeast Raleigh neighborhood where the deadly shooting happened a day earlier.
Bishop Darnell Dixon, a march leader, spoke to the crowd downtown.
"This is not a sprint, it's a marathon," Dixon said. "We want the city to know that southeast Raleigh, we are present, and we want order."
The march is in response to Monday's shooting of Akiel Rakim Lakeith Denkins, 24, who was fatally shot by a Raleigh police officer who was attempting to serve a warrant on a drug charge.
While Denkins' family has claimed he was unarmed, Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck Brown told reporters soon after the shooting Monday that a gun was found near the body.
Dixon told the crowd that the dead man's criminal record has nothing to do with his killing.
North Carolina NAACP President Rev. Dr. William J. Barber called for truth and justice at a news conference Tuesday morning and said lawyers for his group will help make sure the right questions are asked and answered.
On Monday evening, a vigil and march was held in southeast Raleigh. Cries of "black lives matter!" echoed down Bragg Street. There were young and old, blacks and whites. Several hundred gathered there and peacefully but forcefully demanded accountability for what many of them saw as a case of deadly police force against an unarmed man running away from officers.
RALEIGH (WTVD) --
A police-shooting protest march blocked traffic from southeast Raleigh to downtown on Tuesday.
With a police escort leading the way, the protesters marched to downtown Raleigh and gathered outside the Wake County Courthouse briefly before continuing the march through downtown, turning the corner to Fayetteville Street. They later walked back to the southeast Raleigh neighborhood where the deadly shooting happened a day earlier.
Bishop Darnell Dixon, a march leader, spoke to the crowd downtown.
"This is not a sprint, it's a marathon," Dixon said. "We want the city to know that southeast Raleigh, we are present, and we want order."
The march is in response to Monday's shooting of Akiel Rakim Lakeith Denkins, 24, who was fatally shot by a Raleigh police officer who was attempting to serve a warrant on a drug charge.
While Denkins' family has claimed he was unarmed, Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck Brown told reporters soon after the shooting Monday that a gun was found near the body.
Dixon told the crowd that the dead man's criminal record has nothing to do with his killing.
North Carolina NAACP President Rev. Dr. William J. Barber called for truth and justice at a news conference Tuesday morning and said lawyers for his group will help make sure the right questions are asked and answered.
On Monday evening, a vigil and march was held in southeast Raleigh. Cries of "black lives matter!" echoed down Bragg Street. There were young and old, blacks and whites. Several hundred gathered there and peacefully but forcefully demanded accountability for what many of them saw as a case of deadly police force against an unarmed man running away from officers.