Marches expected across New York City Tuesday to mark 1-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 24, 2021, 11:34pm EDT
Many gatherings are expected to take place across the city Tuesday to mark one year since George Floyd s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Barclays Center has been the epicenter of many gatherings last summer after the video showing Floyd s fatal encounter with former officer Derek Chauvin sparked national conversation.
Caroline Gombe, of Black Women s March, is organizing a national walk out at 3 p.m. It will last 9 minutes and 29 seconds – the amount of time Chauvin knelt on Floyd s neck
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Last Saturday, a group of masked women stood together in the doorway of Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village and cheered as they set another meticulously wrapped box onto the pile of what would quickly become a mountain of gifts for foster children.
Kimberly Bernard and Caroline Gombé had rallied hundreds of people to marches across the city as co-founders of the Black Women’s March which grew from the Black Lives Matter movement during the spring and summer protests that shook New York City.