Hoover demonstrators hold peaceful protest against police brutality, racial injustice
Updated Apr 17, 2021;
Posted Apr 17, 2021
Protesters march from the Hoover Police Department headquarters to the Hoover Public Library during a protest Saturday afternoon. (Connor Sheets | csheets@al.com)
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A group of about 40 people gathered in Hoover Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against police brutality, racism and inequality.
In contrast with the dozens of arrests made at large-scale protests that took place in the community after the killing of George Floyd last summer, Hoover Police did not interfere with the protesters on Saturday.
Over the course of two hours, activists marched down the hill from the Hoover Public Library to the Hoover Police Department’s headquarters on Municipal Drive, then back to the library. Along the way, they chanted familiar slogans like “No Justice, No Peace” and “Black Lives Matter,” as well as new ones like “When I say Adam, you say Toledo,” in honor of the 13-year-old shot and killed by Chicago Police late last month.