"No Justice, No Peace": King’s Student Accounts of Black Lives Matter Protests in NYC and LA

With hands raised high into the air and eyes clenched shut, Shá Sanders, King’s senior and President of the Table, the student organization at King’s created to give a voice to minority students, stood in front of the Barclays Center to protest police brutality and the murder of George Floyd. The tear gas released by police officers’ into the predominantly peaceful crowd clouded her vision. An officer walked towards her demanding she leave the premises immediately. Then, as she walked away, stopping just momentarily to help a girl who had tripped behind her, she was struck down in the ribs by an officer’s baton.

Culture, City, CampusMattie TownsonJune 10, 2020George Floyd, peaceful protest, Black Lives Matter, police, police brutality, sha sanders, cheekie payton, mattietownson, nyc, nycprotests, SecondaryFeature, secondaryfeature, Secondary Feature