Nitty and a group of more than 30 peaceful Black Lives Matter marchers finally reached Washington, D.C. after enduring hate, racism, law enforcement harassment, a shooting incident that injured one of the protesters in Pennsylvania.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
August 28, 2020
Washington, D.C. - On Friday, Frank Nitty (birth name Frank Sensabaugh) and a group of more than 30 peaceful Black Lives Matter (BLM) marchers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin arrived in Washington, D.C. after walking 750 miles from Milwaukee to D.C. Nitty and the group entered Washington, D.C. before 8:00 a.m. and transmitted a live Facebook video feed on his account while marching to Lincoln Memorial.
Nitty and the group including Tory Lowe, a community activist from Milwaukee walked for 24 days, while walking 30 miles per day to seek accountability for police and justice for those unarmed people of color who have been killed by police.
The group and Nitty endured racism, hate, vulgarities, police harassment, arrests, a shooting incident where a elderly White man, Elmer Myers, 75, in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania who came out of his house and began to shoot with a shotgun at the marchers while on the road at the 800 block of Lincoln Hwy and one of the marchers known as Cino was injured by buckshot.
Nitty proved how in some communities in the U.S. are so blatant racist and don't welcome Blacks, especially African-Americans walking through their rural communities.
In Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a group of White folks with some wearing Trump MAGA red caps gathered by the local County Courthouse and a park armed with handguns, rifles and other weapons in anticipation that Nitty would walk through their borough, but Nitty avoided the confrontation.
In Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a group of White folks with some wearing Trump MAGA red caps gathered by the local County Courthouse and a park armed with handguns, rifles and other weapons in anticipation that Nitty would walk through their borough, but Nitty avoided the confrontation.
Nitty was leading the social justice and police accountabilty march cross-country seeking reform. The Milwaukee group marching to D.C. will join an August 28th commemoration of the 57th anniversary of the 1963 Civil rights march on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Nitty was recently invited to give a speech at the commemoration event by Reverend Al Sharpton.
Nitty during his speech at the Lincoln Memorial indicated, that most of the people that chastised the BLM peaceful group marching along the 750 mile journey to Washington, D.C. had shotguns including Trump 2020 signs, which is their way to express racism towards people of color and people need to organize and to get rid of racist police officers across the U.S. and to also vote Trump out, calling it a "Revolution".
Nitty says, "While we marched 750 miles, everybody that came and chastised us, everybody that came with shotguns, everybody that came messing with us had Trump signs. Trump 2020. That's the new way they exhibit racism in this country and hide behind it. So we gotta vote Trump out."
Nitty during his speech at the Lincoln Memorial indicated, that most of the people that chastised the BLM peaceful group marching along the 750 mile journey to Washington, D.C. had shotguns including Trump 2020 signs, which is their way to express racism towards people of color and people need to organize and to get rid of racist police officers across the U.S. and to also vote Trump out, calling it a "Revolution".
Nitty says, "While we marched 750 miles, everybody that came and chastised us, everybody that came with shotguns, everybody that came messing with us had Trump signs. Trump 2020. That's the new way they exhibit racism in this country and hide behind it. So we gotta vote Trump out."
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