#MLKShutItDown protests aim to ‘reclaim’ Martin Luther King’s legacy
Protests in California begin four days of planned demonstrations.
Activist groups in the San Francisco Bay Area have begun a series of demonstrations ahead of the US observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 19.
Demonstrators say they intend to reclaim the civil rights leader’s legacy by participating in nonviolent protests.
In Oakland, a group of protesters blocked a government building entrance. They remained for four and a half hours, a reference to the length of time that the body of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, was left on the street.
Published On 16 Jan 2015