After protesting at Jackson’s City Hall, Saturday, a crowd estimated between 200-to-250 headed north to the Old Hickory Mall, Sunday, to continue to protest the death of George Floyd, who died Monday while being arrested by Minneapolis police.
The scene in Jackson differed from those in major cities where protests – rioting, property damage and looting – continued over the police killing of Floyd, and the larger problem of racial prejudice in the American criminal justice, which spread across the country on Friday night, Saturday and today.
Besides Minneapolis, cities targeted included New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, Miami and Louisville, Kentucky, where Breonna Taylor, 26, an emergency medical technician, was recently shot and killed in her own apartment.
(PHOTO: Protesters line North Highland Avenue in front of the Old Hickory Mall – courtesy Ricky Brown NEWS/TALK 101.5 FM)
