In Downtown Washington and ended near the u. S. Capital, where speakers outlined the legislative agenda for congress. This is about two hours and 15 minutes. I cant breathe. [indiscernible] no justice no peace no justice no peace no justice no peace tell me what democracy looks like. [indiscernible] no justice. No peace. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. What we want . Justice. When do we want it . Now. On]e whats going [marvin gaye whats going on] if we could all do this together. Let me introduce myself. Im not really important. Joe madison. I will be running this program. If we could all do this together. Let me Say Something before we get started. There are a lot of people in the media that want to try to suggest there is a division among us. That this is young versus old. White versus black. When my son walks out of the house, i pray every day he will come home. I dont care what color he is. All human life is sacred. And so, let us gather here for a purpose. Let me tell the people in the media something right now. Theres a lot of pain on the streets. But where there is pain there is a purpose. And we are here for purpose. And we are going to be here together. This is intergenerational. And with a few and weairs on her chin are proud of the young people who are standing up and speaking up. Let them hear you. You are the john lewis. You are the people who started this. It is you who are targeted. And you have a right to stand up. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Ladies and gentlemen, let us do this. Let us all grabbed each others hands in unity. Every single hand. Every single hand. I dont care if you have a phd or no d. Ged or whatever you got. Grab somebodys hand. When there is a funeral, we all bow our heads and hold hands. We praise our god, or whoever we want to. Hold your hand. Every hand should be held. Im going to bring forth for prayer the chairman of the board of directors of the National Action network. Chairman richardson. We have gathered here today because we believe in the value of all human life. We gather here today, because we know we have to move from protest to problemsolving. We have got to go back home and take on the issues, and bring unity to our community so we can transform behavior. And transform expectation. Today, join together in our diversity. Join together in our multiple faith expressions. I went to ask you to join me. Whatever your spiritual grounding is, i want us to focus on our spiritual center. On the thing that gets us through the night. The thing that holds us when everything lets us go. The thing that gives us hope when despair is all about us. Let us pray. O god, our mother, and our father. We thank you to the legacy of struggle that we embrace in this hour. We confess our pain. We confess our frustrations. We confess we have to come back here time in and time out. Generation after generation seeking justice. We are tired, but we wont give up. We come today, god, asking you to bless these families. These families who have gathered around. They are hurt and have lost children. Their pain inflicted by insensitivity. We pray, god, for this nation that is on its way to catastrophe unless we turn around and come together and speak hope to each other. We thank you for al sharpton, who has been a clear voice in this difficult time. Not just his voice but the multiple voices of men and women all over this country. The voices of the young people, the voices of our children. We thank you, god, for the voices that are being heard. We thank you for those who put their feet on the pavement. Who walk through the streets. Who, by our presence, demonstrates there is an unsettling spirit in our midst. We asked, god, that you drive out the things that would destroy us. Drive out the violence in government hands. Drive out the violence in the hands of our brothers and sisters. That black on black crime will not continue to be. Drive out the pain, the frustration that leads us to turn on each other. Drive out Police Officers who act without accountability. Drive out government officials and Corporate Leaders who are insensitive to our pain and struggle. And god, then open the window of hope so we can believe in tomorrow. Help us believe in tomorrow. Help us not to be encumbered by the burdens of today. We love you. Make us whole. We are broken. Make us whole. Amen. Amen. [applause] while you still have your hands as far back as i can see. Grab the hands of your neighbor. Hold those hands up. Everybody put your hands up. This is interesting. The cameras are still focused here. They should be focused out there. Look at the hands. Black, white, brown, asian. Come on, media. Wake up. There they are. Nobody is doing nothing wrong. Everybody is doing everything right. That is right. We will make you look today. Congress may be on vacation, but we will never take a vacation until we get what is right. Ladies and gentlemen, a young man who hails from these parts, powered university, isrsity now mayor of newark, new jersey. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. We said i cant breathe not just because eric garner lost his life senselessly in the streets of new york from an illegal chokehold. We say i cant breathe, because we are being suffocated by a system of jim crow justice in america. A system that allows the murder of Trayvon Martin to go free. We say we cant breathe because we are tired of jim crow justice in america. And we are out here today to say that we will fight back. We will stand up. In 1911, miss nelson and her son hung from a bridge in 1911. They say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. In 1955, a man was murdered and dragged from his home and dumped in the tallahassee river. They say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. They say that jim crow is dead in america. And i say eric garner is dead in america. That mike brown is dead in america. There is no justice for people of color and poor people in this country. And until there is justice for all, there will be justice for none. Anywhere there is injustice, it is a threat to justice everywhere in this country where we are. I want to say, that finally, we are not just out here because we want Police Reform. Were not out here because we want the police to wear cameras. And though we think that will help we are not out here because , we think the Police Department is the problem. We are out here because there is a systematic and consistent effort to dehumanize and criminalize people of color. That has been going on for decades in america. We are out here because we want we reform in the Police Departments, congress, our states. We need reform in our cities, institutions, colleges. We need reform. Thatntil america realizes they have to invest in every citizen in this country, it will always be a problem that this country will never have peace, rest, justice, and until all people are treated fairly and equally and treated like human beings. God bless you. Keep up the struggle. Keep hope alive. Keep fighting. Keep pushing. There were 400 people who came here from ferguson, missouri. 400 folks came from ferguson, missouri. Hands up. This all began. Hands up. Gentlemen, we are going to we want you to understand. Everybody is going to have a voice. Sharpton,t what al joe madison would do. You have to ask the question, what are you going to do about it. Everybody can do something. My next speaker, a young man, jostle williams, decided he was going to do something. Give Joshua Williams of round of applause. [applause] how are you doing . How are you doing . How are you doing . All right. I came all the way to washington, d. C. To support you and us. The reason why we came appear is we are are tired of being shut down in the streets like dogs. The police have a trigger finger. Control the trigger finger when they see a black person in the street. There is no reason why we should walk down the street and look over our shoulders because the police are coming. Is no reason why we should get followed around the store because we are black. We should be black in america and be free. Watched over like dogs. We are going to stand up to these Police Officers. We are going to tell them that we are going to put an end to Police Brutality. Youre going to stop beating our kids. I went to jail for five days. Five times a week to joe for protesting. Every night i got out of jail i was back. That shows them that i dont care about them. You can lock me up all you want i get oute next day of jail im going to be in your face. The next time i get beat and get out of the hospital, im going to be back in your face. I was beaten to. Too, during the ferguson protest. Officers rushed in. They stood at tackling the people. I got beat on the ground. They took me to jail. I checked out and it took me to the hospital. Anyways, after the hospital visits, i went right back out there that same night in their face. They did not like it at all. These people you see on the stage, this is my protest family. Right here. You are all my family right here. I wenzhou to put your hands in the air. I want you all to put your hands in the air. I want you all to put your hands in the air. The cops do not understand we are surrendering. They took a young mans life. They shop to that mans body. He was about to be in college the next day. He was about to be earning his education. He did not understand that they took sun away from her. Now shes got this been all the holidays without her sun. They dont understand how hard it is to have a Family Member taken from you with bullets. So, we need to tell them to stop doing the stuff, man. We all want to live. All want to see our kids we all want to see our kids grow up. We all want to see our kids have an education. We want to make it. Forget when we go back to ferguson. Protest with us. This. M in this with i see a lot of good signs. I cant breathe. Murder is illegal. Thats nice. I see that. I see that, too. That is nice. No justice. No peace. No justice. Hands up. Dont shoot. I love yall. I love yall, man. My name is tony sanders. Im originally from north carolina, but i have been a washingtonian for 10 years. I want the people out here in the streets. I am one of the organizers who , anddown 395, 14th street shutting down the streets everything will not. I want to tell you why we are outer shutting down the streets. This is not an issue of Police Brutality tonight. This is a human rights issue. Owns human rights were violated. He did not get the rise to a fair trial, due process treaty did not get the rights to be judged by a jury of his peers. We are here fighting human rights tonight. It is not black against white tonight. It is us against the system. It is us against white supremacy. If you make a mistake of calling , an issue ofghts Police Brutality, the system will win. What we are doing right now is exactly what the system does not want to see. Black faces, white faces, asian faces, hispanic faces, together today. They dont does is united. Salsa othing but a social construct. It is been invented to divide us. With our race to the side. We look at one another as humans. We do not say, hands up, dont shoot in washington, d. C. We say, best up, fight back and washington, d. C. Fight back. Fist up. Fight back. Universal sign of surrender. That is why we dont say. We try to that way. We tried to be nonviolent. We try to throw our hands in the air and say we surrender, but nothing has stopped the killing of black and brown people in america. Nothing has stopped it. And so we say, this stuff, fight back. Up, fightwe say, this fight back. And then she looked at me and said, sorry. I aint mad at her. Youve got a lot to say. Folks, they on the program. President of the how would University Student association stopped by to say hello. Up. Ands dont shoot. In the three and a half years since i have been at harvard university, we are about troy davis, Trayvon Martin, eric garner, Michael Brown, we , anded, we protested we got zero guilty verdicts. All that says is that the system is working for the people that it was meant to work for. That is not how the story ends. The people that you see back here in ferguson have been protesting for 127 day straight. They were not let the story in the process of the new york are saying, i cant breathe, let the story end. We are here in washington, d. C. By the thousands to say, that this is now the story ends. If they thought this is how the story is going to end, up america better wake up. This is our time. This is our fight. This is our chance to tell america that we are tired of police getting away with murder. America, a black man is 17 times more likely to be killed in a white man. According to the department of justice report, a black man is killed by a white officer twice a week. Not up here becomes because i am an activist, i am up your because this is personal. Tom someone who is not middle class into comfortable to understand that it could of been my parents there were sitting back here crying over me being in the grave. Im someone who cant look at those people in their eyes and see the pain and see their grief and not do something about it. I could care less about all the media. I could care less about the press. To i want is for this event not become an annual event. What i have come to realize is that america is really a living, breathing contradiction. This is a country that wrote that all men are created equal, but then in the same document said that people that look like me and you are only worth three this of a person. Put is the same country 115,000 japanese in internment counts in california. We dont like to talk about it, but it happened. People that are commissioned to protect us and service are instead harassing us and killing us. Is american as apple pie. Has alwayse task been to narrow the disparity between the justice that has been enumerated in theory and the way that justice is continually operated in practice. The question becomes, what next . What we going to do about it . We need Real Community policeman. Im not talking about cultural sensitivity policeman. Im talking about the dude you play basketball with on the court. The girl you went to get your hair done with. We need police to debt programs that go back into those police cadet programs that go back into those high school to get those kids to become Police Officers. That is Community Policing. The second thing is, we need accountability for these officers who were acting with impunity. I believe that the president should expand the department of justice to include a division specifically dedicated to deal with cases of Police Misconduct the result in death. That needs to happen. That is amended to do on his own. He doesnt have to wait for congress. He doesnt have to wait for the house. He can do that on his own. There are things we can legislate, but we alternately cant legislate peoples presumptions and stereotypes. What we need is a cultural shift that identifies black lives as equal to any other life in america. , nobodyyou with a quote can give you freedom, nobody can give you quality or justice or anything. If you are a man, you take it. Malcolm x. The next speaker is the director of the National Action network from atlanta, georgia. Hello, everybody. How are you . Let me say can everybody give themselves a round of applause. You can, you march, and supported the movement. Dr. Martin luther king jr. Said we are caught in an Inescapable Network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. That directly affects us all indirectly. It is the echo of our young people. Without america, our young people are dying in the hands of those two serving protect us. When i looked out into this crowd, and privacy different , genders, affiliations, and organizations. It takes all of us working together to make this change. Every millennial standing up against Police Violence and other atrocities. From the daily human relations humiliations and counted with the police, assume the position in chicago, or up against the wall and logan in oakland. They make it clear that we are the reason you have no rights. It is our request for justice that we embrace the truth of americas promise and we must hold america accountable. So, what will we do . We need to use our 1 trillion buying power and support our communities. [applause] in this country today and every day until we see change we will make you uncomfortable. Africanamerican people in this country have been uncomfortable for too long. We will march. We will protest. Well rally. We will come back to this capital as many times as we have to. Another is enough enough is enough. What if we come to do . , why have weking come to washington, d. C. Congressome to tell that Police Misconduct and retarded it would lead to legislation. We will Tell Congress to enact legislation that addresses the jurisdictional threshold regarding the department of justice. Today, we come to dz to Tell Congress to do their job. Thank you. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. Thank you very much. I made a mistake and said that congress was on vacation, but that is not all of congress. Some folks decided they were going to stay. I have a congressman from houston, texas. Ladies and gentlemen, congressman al. Let me start by complement the convenernding of this great march. I believe that when a person takes the initiative to a copper something for others, that person ought to be recognized. I ask that you now kindly recognize and show some love to the honorable al sharpton. The leader. The man of courage who convened us today. Lets show him some love. Lets hear it for him. [applause] who question why we are here. I want to let them know that we are here for the same reasons that the pilgrims came to plymouth rock. We are here for the same reasons that people through tea into the boston harbor. We are here for the same reasons tractors to got on traverse the country and bring their complaints to congress big we are here for the same reason that rosa parks took a seat on a bus and a racist southern town could we are here for the same reason that