'Justice For All' March In Washington DC (Photos)
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Roughly 10,000 people marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., on Saturday to protest police brutality and recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
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Thousands took part in the Justice for All March and Rally.
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Michael Brown Sr. (L), the father of Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown, stands with US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (C), D-New York, and Reverend Al Sharpton (R) during the "march.
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Recent killings of unarmed African Americans by police officers and the decisions by Grand Juries to not indict them has caused a deep sense of outrage among large swaths of the American population, but especially in African American communities.
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Film director Spike Lee (R) was there as civil rights activist Al Sharpton led the march
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Demonstrators were there to urge Congress to do more to protect African-Americans from unjustified police violence.
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Preston Miller holds his hands up during the march
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Samaria Rice (L), mother of Tamir Rice, 12, who was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer, marches through the crowd.
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It wasn't all about social justice. Vendors sold t-shirts and calendars at a subway stop near the start of the march.
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Demonstrators argue with US Capitol police as they march to join the protest.
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Fear of police encounters seemed to motivate marchers more than any suggested reforms, which included body cameras for police, a push for a separate division in the Department of Justice for police brutality and mandating that special prosecutors take the lead in police involved shootings.
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People shout slogans like "No Justice, no peace!" and "I can't breathe!" as they take part in the march. Organizers said the event and the parallel march in New York City would rank among the largest in the recent wave of protests against the killings of black males by officers in Ferguson, Missouri, New York, Cleveland and elsewhere.
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A man is wrapped in chains at the march in protest.
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Thousands stood out in the cold to, at the very least, “show their solidarity and make their voice heard.”
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The protesters were a diverse mix. There were little blond girls in knit hats next to elderly African American women hobbling on canes. Those marching held signs emblazoned with slogans like “Black Lives Matter” or simply the names of their union or local Democratic Party.
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