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Fifty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police officers spoke at the same site Friday, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and Jacob Blake joined Reverend Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III at the Commitment March: Get Your Knee off Our Necks, which drew an estimated thousands. Sharpton first announced plans for the march during a memorial service for George Floyd, the 46-year-old father who died at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May."George Floyd's story has been the story of Black folks because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed to be is you kept your knee on our neck," Sharpton said at the service in June. Attorneys for his family say he is now paralyzed.Jacob Blake's father speaks at the March on Washington: "I'm tired of looking at cameras and seeing these young black and brown people suffer… We are not taking it anymore" https://t.co/rPUAWLIwhM pic.twitter.com/wW7FGvc2yMBlake's father spoke at the march on Friday, and used it as an opportunity to "hold court" against systematic racism in America. "I have a duty to support and understand each one — I love everybody in this crowd, I love you."Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris recorded brief remarks for the march that played during the event on Friday.Harris, who tweeted her address Thursday night, said that if civil rights activists from the 1960s were here today, they "would share in our anger and frustration as we continue to see Black men and women slain in our streets and left behind by an economy and justice system that have too often denied Black folks our dignity and rights." "They would share our anger and pain, but no doubt they would turn it into fuel," Harris continued.

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