ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN WILLIAMSON Can Rochester s new Food Policy Council drain the city s food swamp ? On the anniversary of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with Rochester police, scores of demonstrators marched east from downtown to take over the parking lot at the East Avenue Wegmans, eventually prompting the store to close for the day. “Wegmans exemplifies what’s wrong in our community,” Justin Morris, president of the Rochester Chapter of the Arc of Justice, a grassroots group for social change, said at the protest. Around him, demonstrators wrote Black Lives Matter slogans in chalk on the asphalt as Wegmans workers locked themselves and shoppers behind the store’s glass doors.
Protesters Shut Down Wegmans Store in Rochester, NY, in Daniel Prude Demonstration
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