Multiple Groups Come Together to Support Protests

Multiple Groups Come Together to Support Protests

44-news reporter jake thomas shows us-- people from all walks of life-- and all ages are finding a way to be a part of history-- for a week straight, people in the river city have come together to call for justice and change, and on saturday, more voices were added to the call.?i just really wanted to do this to help myself better understand their situations, so that way when we are hopefully back in the classrooms in august, then i can really understand their viewpoint, and i can understand what going on in their life?

On saturday--- there was a gathering in front of the ford center downtown-- where families came out and made their voices heard using sidewalk chalk.?i want justice, and i want peace, and i feel that people deserve to know that we won stay silent anymore?

Nat pop and bellas parents spoke about the importance of allowing children to be involved in the protesting process.?i think it very important to teach children to be involved in their government and involved in their city and what going on, and i think it very american to hold your government accountable for things that you don believe, and i think it has to start early?

And doctors and medical students from the evansville area came together saturday morning to support the black lives matter movement.

Nat pop?black men are twice as likely to die from a heart attack before the age of fifty.

Even now, black patients are significantly more likely to die of covid related causes, so we wanted to bring awareness to this.

We know that physiology is not the problem here.

It generations of systemic racism?

Hopper, medical professionals, and other medical students marched from the riverside down to the civic center to bring awareness to the racial disparities in the medical field.

In evansville, jake thomas 44 news.

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