fraught days and nearly four months later, bolstered by grand juries in st. louis and new york, declining to indict officers who killeded eric brown and michael garner, that movement is still going strong. today s march came together in the mostly peaceful protests going on in cities across the kund. that movement made its way to the steps of the capitol when dozens walked out displaying the hands up, don t shoot pose in a show of solidarity. on wednesday activists brought a list of demands to a meeting with the state attorney general. at least two activists in new york, the political became personnel when they experienced wh they believed were racialized responses for the police during the protests. sean and benjamin, both graduate students at union theological
i do. sean and benjamin, thank you for your courage. thank you for your voice. thank you for sharing your story with us this morning. up next, we re going to have a little bit of a how to build a movement 101. my panel is coming in. ids went le announcer ] take zzzquil.
sew when you all made the decision to join in the streets, you went knowing that there was likely to be an arrest. potentially this police reaction that we ve been seeing around the country. but you wrote a piece that the the two of you were treated quite differently in the con texas of your interaction with police. tell me about that story. yeah, melissa. so basically when the police showed up to arrest us, we were all linked up in arms. we had been doing the same actions the entire evening. we had marched together. we chanted together. we had die-ins together. doing the same actions the entire night. but when the police came, i watched as they ripped sean away. two of them. and then i offered myself up to be arrested as well. the police officer two tackled me, he put me down. i put my hands behind me back and he leaned forward and whispered in my ear, just get out of here. and no such offer to just get