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“GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS” MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. AUGUST 28
Photo by Chris Rojas
the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the Yolanda Renee King, families and lawyers of 57th anniversary of the March on Wash- loved ones who lost their lives at the hands of ington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, police. The families of Jacob Blake, George An estimated 50,000 people from all 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Ahmaud Aubrey, Oscar Grant, Donacross America attended the “Get Your his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The speakers included Martin Luther tre Hamilton and others spoke to the audiKnee Off Our Necks” March on Washington. It was hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton at King III and his granddaughter, 12 year old ence, sharing their grief, resilience and the by Chris Rojas SGN Contributing Writer
appreciation for witnessing so many people coming together to honor the lives lost. There were so many people who had lost family members to the police that near the end, it got a little heated because there
see WASHINGTON page 12
Transgender cousin Seattle Police of Jacob Blake receives sweep homeless from anti-LGBT threats Cal Anderson Park “We have a message that we are going to spread regardless of the hate we are going up against,” said Elliot Chafetz
Protesters respond with garbage, molotov cocktails at East Precinct
Elliott Chafetz – Photo by Renee Raketty
by Renee Raketty SGN Staff Writer It was difficult enough for Elliot Chafetz, 20, to tell his own family he was not only Transgender but Gay as well. However, Chafetz found himself thrust before the
public eye when his cousin, Jacob Blake, was shot at seven times and hit in the back four times by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer, paralyzing him from the waist down. The media had come knocking, literally, outside his Seattle-area home.
see ELLIOT CHAFETZ page 18
Photo by Renee Raketty
by Renee Raketty by SGN Staff Writer The Seattle Police Department and crews from the Seattle Parks Department swept Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill shortly after 10am on Tuesday, September
1, of its unhoused residents and shut down volunteer-led mutual aid efforts that had provided services. The Shelterhouse area and nearby bathrooms were fenced-off and the windows and doors covered with metal plates. Sev-
see POLICE SWEEP page 17