Group Faces Gunfire During March From Milwaukee to D.C. [VIDEO]
Written by Jazzy T on August 29, 2020
Frank Nitty organized a march spanning 750 miles from Milwaukee Wisconsin to Washington D.C. to protest against police brutality.
The group of 20 men, women and children walked for 24 days and suffered blistered feet and harassment from people with shotguns along the way. On the ninth day, Indiana State Police arrested and held Frank Nitty and co-organizer Tory Lowe for several hours because, police said, the group was blocking traffic as they walked.
Lowe says that a white man came out of no where and shot their security.
The incident was captured on Nitty’s Facebook Live Stream.
The March from Milwaukee to DC with Frank Nitty II has just been attacked by 2 white men, shooting/injuring at least 1 person.
The men left their house, walked down the driveway, fired upon the group in the street as they were resting & stretching legs.https://t.co/CsDqKzlAEh pic.twitter.com/RCXlfPHX24
— Merc with a Mouth (@Mercuryal) August 25, 2020
“This march was meant to happen because look what’s happening in the state of Wisconsin,” Lowe told USA Today, referring to the shooting of Jacob Blake. “It brings validation to the fact of why we ever started this march in the first place.”
On Friday morning, Frank Nitty made it to D.C. and took the stage at the Commitment March: Get Your Knees Off Our Necks.
He used his allotted 2 minutes to deliver a revolutionary speech on the 57th Anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech. Nitty stressed that now is the time to organize and demand change.
“My grandkids aren’t gonna march for the same things my granddaddy marched for” Nitty said at the Washington Mall.
He also talked about the people who chastised the group along their journey from Wisconsin had shot guns and Trump 2020 signs, which Nitty says have become a symbol of racism in America.
After marching 750 miles from Milwaukee to Washington, activist Frank Nitty made a passionate demand for change at the #MarchOnWashington. pic.twitter.com/1xqJrHEwU5
— TMJ4 News (@tmj4) August 28, 2020
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