The Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia arm of the Black Lives Matter movement will be joined by several other social justice organizations on New Year’s Eve in an effort to shutdown D.C.’s Chinatown.
The groups — Black Lives Matter DMV, Stop Police Terror Project DC, BYP 100, ONE DC, Black Movement Law Project and Law 4 Black Lives — plan to meet to march beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday night for the non-indictments of the police officers involved in the deaths of Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice.
The groups also pledge to demand justice for Alonzo Smith, Jason Goolsby and Raphael Briscoe, victims of police brutality in D.C.
So far, roughly 500 people have RSVPed “yes,” on the Facebook event invite, and roughly 830 have said they are “interested.”
“We WILL NOT go in to a new year without demanding immediate justice in both cases! We can no longer express our rage, disappointment, and fear alone or in silence,” the event’s invitation reads. “The doors of the movement are wide open, please come in! Bring your signs, banners and all of your family, friends, neighbors, faith community members, sorors, fraternity brothers, teachers, EVERYONE!!”
Black Lives Matter DMV posted that the official hashtag for the shutdown will be #TakeBackOurStreetsDC.
