Black Lives Matter protesters rally at governor's residence
A group of protesters have held a rally in the US state of Minnesota to demand elected officials resolve the issue of racial inequality.
About 40 protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement gathered at the Minnesota Governor's residence in St. Paul Tuesday night, to express concern about racial discrimination in the state.
The protest was a response to Governor Mark Dayton's remarks last week calling a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Minnesota State Fair "inappropriate."
"We need to have people in office who represent the people, not who represent big business," Black Lives Matter St. Paul lead organizer Rashad Turner said. "There is nothing inappropriate about protesting as we have seen throughout history."
Dayton was not at the governor's residence at the time of the protest.
About 300 Black Lives Matter members protested outside the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday to express concern over vendor selection and diversity.
“They are not going to care unless we get outside in the streets and disrupt some things,” protester Monique Cullars-Doty said.
Black Lives Matter is a US activist movement that campaigns against what it calls police brutality against African Americans in the United States.
The movement began following the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Florida shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin.
The group received new momentum in 2014 from the deaths of two unarmed African Americans, teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and 43-year-old Eric Garner in New York City.
In both police-involved incidents, the grand juries did not indict the officers and no charges were brought.
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