DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A caravan of protesters took to the streets of south DeKalb County Monday night to call for justice and reform.
Everyone gathered in their cars with one goal in mind: justice.
“We need a racial healing, a healing of the heart, a healing of the mind, a healing of the soul,” pastor Marvin Crawford told Channel 2’s Audrey Washington.
Instead of chants, there were honks as people prepared to drive around the area with signs that displayed George Floyd’s name and demands for justice.
“We can no longer live the way we are with the police brutality, and we also came out to bring other demands from our county to the state. And one of the issues we will deal with besides police brutality will be criminal justice,” Crawford said.
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Before the caravan, several pastors took to the mic and lifted up the names of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor, just to name a few.
Then they held a moment of silence for exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
As the caravan made its way through the streets, many leaders told Washington they will continue to organize protests until there is a systemic change.
“We stand in solidarity with those across the country who look like us, and who feel like us, and who want what we want, and that is social change,” Crawford said.
During the gathering, there was also a call for the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor to be arrested and charged. The protesters also demanded a state hate crime law.
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