Ongoing coverage of the June 7 Eastern Henrico 'Call to Action' March and Rally
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(This page will be updated throughout the day; check back for details as they become available. Reporter Brandon Jarvis (on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jaaavis) will be covering the event for the Citizen, and we'll post his Twitter updates here. If videos do not load on this page, clear your browser's cache and try again.)
The protest is ending as peacefully as it began with protestors now making their way down Laburnum Avenue towards Saint Paul’s Baptist Church.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The children pic.twitter.com/re9pxtCSle
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Henrico Schools Superintendent, Amy Cashwell is in attendance
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The Richmond and Henrico sheifffs are in attendance. And RVA’s Commonwealth Attorney @Colette4rva is here as well.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Monica Hutchinson is now speaking, she works with the Henrico NAACP. “We need to focus on black lives. Do not let anyone dilute this movement right now. She says “right now we are the focus because we have never been before”
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
“Believe me, there is bigotry in the police department.” Says Ragland. “As a retired police officer, my heart hurts.”
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
“My child should be able to go to school in the east end and receive the same quality of education as a child in the west end” says Shelton.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Samantha is now speaking: she said she had to have a special conversation with her son when her started driving because he is black in America.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
They want government to give the citizen review board immediate access to all info in regards to these officer involved deaths. More - laws prohibiting chokeholds from police officers and laws requiring officers to intervene when they see other officers using excessive force
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
They want government to give the citizen review board immediate access to all info in regards to these officer involved deaths. More - laws prohibiting chokeholds from police officers and laws requiring officers to intervene when they see other officers using excessive force
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Some demands: nationally recognized guidelines that define excessive force. They want an independently appointed citizen review board with real powers to review within 7 days after someone dies by police
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Speaker now telling the crowd to text the words “change” to the number 8046434769. You can text demands that you want to see as a result of this movement so that they are all in one place.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
“”Today is about change, this is not a marathon, this is not a sprint. we don’t want to walk away from this moment empty handed”
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Speaker now says that if anyone at this protest hears someone taking about causing vandalism, to tell the police immediately
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The march has now arrived at Eastern Henrico Recreatiom Center where we are expecting to hear from speakers pic.twitter.com/TaRmYgEMQb
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The crowd is now chanting the name of Marcus-David Peters. In Henrico.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Right after sending that tweet, Henrico police shut down the opposite direction at the stop light ahead. There was at least two minutes of traffic flowing past the crowd beforehand. The crowd is now spreading across all lanes pic.twitter.com/R31M2jCKje
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The very large peaceful protest is now taking over Laburnum Avenue pic.twitter.com/pbMD3wpwfb
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Another way to stop traffic is to just take up the entire street pic.twitter.com/tfm9fjk98o
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Varina Supervisor Tyrone Nelson is marching with the crowd pic.twitter.com/NgMwx398Lh
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
“Lean on Me” pic.twitter.com/saxNoBa9RA
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The crowd is now marching down Creighton Road pic.twitter.com/Jk97KKl5Y2
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The crowd is now marching down Creighton Road pic.twitter.com/Jk97KKl5Y2
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The march is set to begin now pic.twitter.com/1JBSNACMv7
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
The crowd is now singing together
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Henrico Commonwealth Attorney Shannon Taylor and Delegate @VVforDelegate are here
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
So far, the organizer of this event wants to remain anonymous
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
I am in Henrico’s east end to cover today’s march for @HenricoCitizen. There are a lot of people here with traffic backed up down Creighton Road as attendees try and park at Saint Paul’s Church. Here is my thread.
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) June 7, 2020
Hundreds of people are expected to participate in the Call to Action March and Rally in Eastern Henrico County Sunday; the event will begin at St. Paul's Baptist Church on Creighton Road at 2 p.m., and participants will march two miles to the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center on North Laburnum Avenue. It will be the third rally in Henrico, following two in the West End during the past week.
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