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December 10, 2014

Phoenix Demonstrators Protest Police Killing of Unarmed African-American Man 
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Protests against police killings of unarmed African Americans also
continue nationwide. In Phoenix, around 200 people rallied over the most
recent victim, 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon. Police shot Brisbon last week
after mistaking a pill bottle in his pocket for a gun. At the march,
protesters remembered Brisbon and demanded justice over this death.

Brittany Jones: "First and foremost, he was a family man, definitely
there for his kids, loving, caring, a very good friend to everyone."

AJ Webstar: "Out here for justice for Rumain, out here for justice for
all minorities, I'm out here just to like be heard, out here to stand
with Phoenix."

Jenee Polk: "We're not going to stand for them murdering people. I mean,
people are unarmed when they're being murdered right now. They had no
reason to be even following him. He was racially profiled, and that is a
huge problem in Arizona."

The rally was led by Brisbon's nine-year-old daughter, one of his four
children.

 

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