By DAVID BRIGHOUSE
Credits: Najah Allen
The one-year anniversary event is now taking place at the Rahway Recreation Center.
The one-year anniversary event is now taking place at the Rahway Recreation Center.
Credits: David Brighouse
Credits: Najah Allen
Credits: Najah Allen
Credits: Najah Allen
Credits: Najah Allen
Credits: Najah Allen
May 26, 2021 at 6:59 PM
RAHWAY, NJ This Saturday, May 29, at 1 p.m., community leaders and local organizations will hold a gathering at the Rahway Recreation Center marking the one-year anniversary of last year s social unrest protest in Rahway.
The protest was one of a series of similar protests that swept the nation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who knelt on Floyd s neck for over nine minutes after Floyd was already handcuffed and lying face down, was convicted on April 20 of this year on all three counts he faced: second-degree unintenti