BLM protesters marched through Houston , chanting anti-police rhetoric, including, “F*&k Blue Lives”. They also threw in “Pig, pig, bang, bang” and “No racist police” for good measure. The protest sprang up from the release of the shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. For the most part, the march wash peaceful, even though there were a couple of small skirmishes. The police put up barricades to keep the protesters from the nearby Interstate.
In one of the slight altercations came in a parking lot for the University of Houston. BLM finally backed down and changed the course of their protest. They even did their “Hands up..Don’t shoot ” routine.
A co-organizer for the march, Deondre Moore told Blakinger, “We’re tired of seeing what’s going on in America. We’re fed up.”
“Every morning I see black and brown bodies in the street. I don’t feel safe when I see a police officer coming around,” Moore continued. “I’m afraid to say this, but white people don’t have to deal with this,” he continued. “When something is wrong, we need to call it for what it is – systematic racism, police brutality, a system that wasn’t built for people who look like me. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt.”
Houston police officers erected barricades to prevent protesters from occupying the nearby I-45 Gulf Freeway, KPRC NBC2’s Brandon Walker reported. Other than a couple of brief incidents, Houston police officers kept protesters either in sidewalks or in parking lots as they moved along their route.
Chastity Gibbons told Walker, “I wanted my kids [to] be able to see how to protest.” Gibbons brought her four children to the event, including five-year-old Elijah.
The protest remained peaceful and no arrests were made.