On Monday night, a large group of protestors came together at Columbia Heights Civic Plaza to protest against the shooting of Jacob Blake by Wisconsin police officers.
By 7pm, the crowd had grown to nearly 200 people, according to DCist. The protestors marched down 14th Street chanting “out of your home and into the streets.”
Protesters are off, heading north on 14th St, where traffic has been shut down. pic.twitter.com/6aLwxzwMvc
— Gaspard Le Dem (@GLD_Live) August 24, 2020
Throughout the protest, demonstrators focused on calling out inaction—with chants like “white silence is violence.”
Another look at that Columbia Heights protest — this was outside Red Derby. Fwiw, though I did see some protesters confront diners directly, the general intent seemed more to disrupt than coerce. pic.twitter.com/L9eYokWU0t
— Gaspard Le Dem (@GLD_Live) August 26, 2020
Later on in the evening, large groups of demonstrators confronted white diners outside of Columbia Heights restaurants along 14th Street. The video below has since gone viral nationwide.
