Black men have been gunned down and dying under extremely conspicuous circumstances the past year or so, with most of the police officers being vindicated by the same system and same-minded people as the officers who shot the unarmed men.
Organizers of the 11th annual Atlanta Greek Picnic interrupted the festive atmosphere at Morris Brown College on the Atlanta University Center to order a pause in order to memorialize fallen black men and women and to remind them that the issue of police brutality is as real an issue as ever before.
For a moment of silence, the multitude assembled adopted the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose popularized during the sickening string of unarmed black men being shot to death — evoking such names as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — or killed while in police custody, as in the case of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. and Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
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