NAACP chief: ‘Ensure every demonstrator is a vote’

Published July 10, 2016 5:18pm ET



Black Lives Matter activists need to “need to ensure that every demonstrator is a vote” in the fall elections in order to win policy changes pertaining to police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, according to the head of the NAACP.

“To bring about the kind of change that we need, we need to ensure that every demonstrator is a vote and that we to show up en masse and in the millions at the polls in November,” NAACP president Cornell William Brooks said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning.

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