Loretto Community Members March for Justice
Posted on July 1, 2020, by Leslee Moore CoL
On the evening of May 25, 2020, where Chicago Avenue and 38th Street meet in Minneapolis, Minn., George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer. Mr. Floyd was restrained in handcuffs, his life squeezed out of him by the officer’s knee on his neck, as three other officers watched, mute witnesses to the crime that was being committed at their feet. If there is a hero in this tragedy, it is Darnella Frazier, a 17-year-old girl who had the courage to pull out her phone and begin recording. Had she not done that, the murder of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of the police would have gone unnoticed by all but his family.
The protests arose organically, first in Minneapolis, then quickly spreading across the country and around the world. Many of our Loretto Community members, working for justice and acting for peace, risking exposure to COVID-19, joined the marches, standing with others, proclaiming with one voice that Black Lives Matter.
Photo courtesy of Alice Kitchen
Photo courtesy of Paulette Peterson
Photo courtesy of Paulette Peterson
Photo courtesy of Alice Kitchen
Photo courtesy of Maureen Flanigan
Photo courtesy of Maureen Flanigan
Photo courtesy of Sue Kenney
Photo courtesy of Maureen Flanigan
Photo courtesy of Alice Kitchen
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