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‘NORTHERN KENTUCKY IS NOT IMMUNE’ More than 200 gather for George Floyd protest in Fort Mitchell Cole Behrens Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Protesters walk in Erlanger at the "Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!" march and rally Sunday. PHOTOS BY PHIL DIDION/THE ENQUIRER

Hundreds walk in Black Lives Matter protest Julia Fair Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

People hoisted up signs, handed out cool water bottles and chanted at the top of their lungs. On Sunday, hundreds of people, with a police escort, walked two miles on Dixie Highway from the former Kmart parking lot in Elsmere to the Elsmere Police Department. The crowd walked through the 80-degree weather as protests across the U.S. continue after black people were killed by police. “Say his name,” a protester called out. “George Floyd,” the crowd responded. “Say her name,” another person asked. “Breonna Taylor,” the crowd yelled back. Those were the two people the crowd honored on Sunday. Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota when a Minneapolis police offi cer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Taylor was an EMT in Louisville, Kentucky who was shot by police after they entered her apartment with a ‘no-knock’ warrant. Since those deaths, residents across the U.S. have continued to hold Black Lives Matters protests. Also on Sunday, about 20 minutes away across the Ohio River, thousands of protesters gathered in Cincinnati at Fountain Square for a protest. Chris Brown, of Elsmere, organized the rally for the Northern Kentucky city home to 8,642 people. She mingled with people she knew, directed where donated medical masks and snacks should go and pointed to who people should talk to to register to vote. “We’re giving the people a voice right now to speak out against everything that they are not in agreeance with as it pertains to police brutality and racial injustice,” Brown said before the group started the walk.

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Protesters made it to the Elsmere Police station on Sunday.

Along the route, the protesters said Floyd’s and Taylor’s name, “no justice, no peace, no racist police,” along with other chants. Volunteers stretched out their arms to off er water, and passersby honked their horns from their cars. At the Elsmere Police Station, a few speakers talked about racial inequalities and suggested what the crowd could do next to push for change. Some urged them to vote to change policy and procedure. Others said to keep the conversation going by meeting new people. “Share your story,” said Catrena Bowman-Thomas, 47, of Erlanger. Bowman-Thomas added that the rally was the most united she’s seen Northern Kentucky since she’s lived here. She told protesters they could invite people they met at the rally to their homes for BBQ to keep the conversation going. “Northern Kentucky is not immune,” from racial inequalities, said Northern

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Kentucky NAACP President Jerome Bowles during his speech at the rally. As the speakers fi nished, the sun moved closer to the west and people removed their sunglasses and hats. Water bottles were empty. The Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky transported protesters back to their vehicles. Some decided to walk back. They thanked volunteers for water and police offi cers for escorting them across the sidewalk. Brown told The Enquirer she wants to see more rallies and protests planned. “I’m hoping that every body goes out and continues to lend their voice to this,” brown said. “We have to keep lending out voice to this, we cannot shut up, we cannot sit down, we have got to go the full gamut.” Send Julia Fair her a note at jfair@enquirer.com and follow her on twitter at @JFair_Reports.

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FORT MITCHELL – More than 200 people marched through the streets of this Northern Kentucky suburb against racial injustice Saturday afternoon. The demonstration was one of at least seven held across the Cincinnati region Saturday in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. As they went through the city’s commercial area as the temperature reached 90 degrees, workers from the Greyhound Tavern handed marchers popsicles and Biggby Coff ee off ered samples of its iced tea. Demonstrators met at noon outside the Fort Mitchell city building, where organizer and former Beechwood football team captain John Willis and other recent graduates gave speeches. There, the group kneeled for 90 seconds in honor of Floyd. Floyd was killed when a police offi cer pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. Three other offi cers watched. All four policemen were fi red after the incident, and have been criminally charged. The protesters marched for several miles on the sidewalks to Beechwood schools. They were greeted by the school superintendent, Mike Stacy, who said he was glad to see his recent graduates and current students who are marching come together as a community and speak out against an issue. As they walked through residential neighborhoods, the demonstrators were met with onlookers kneeling or holding signs in their front yard and off ering them cold water. Police presence at the march was minimal, although offi cers on bicycles closed intersections and ensured marchers could cross roads safely. EMT services remained on standby in case anyone suff ered heat-related injuries. After the march ended, a Kenton County Sheriff ’s golf cart drove some demonstrators back to their cars.

Graham Hildebrandt, 8, of Fort Mitchell, watches during a protest in Fort Mitchell, sporting Black Lives Matter and demonstrating against the death of George Floyd, Saturday, June 6. LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

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