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People attend the March on Washington, on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.Updated 4:13 p.m. ETThousands of demonstrators braved sweltering temperatures in the nation's capital on Friday to demand an overhaul of the country's criminal justice system and push for racial equality. The event, called the Commitment March was held at the Lincoln Memorial, the same site Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for those same reforms decades ago in his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech.Like the 1963 March on Washington, organizers opened with a series of speeches before attendees began to march through the streets of the city, this time ending at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.This event – dubbed "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" — comes at a particularly tense time as frustration over police brutality and use of force have sparked national outrage following the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.'We still struggle for justice'A common theme throughout the march was a call to action for attendees to register and to vote in the fall elections.Several of the speakers led the crowds in chants of "No Justice! No Peace!" And repeated the refrain that "Black Lives Matter." At one point some in the crowd could be overheard saying "hands up, don't shoot."Addressing the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, just as his father did on this day 57 years ago, Martin Luther King III said the civil rights struggle his father helped lead in the 1950s and 1960s is far from over. Human Rights Advocate Martin Luther King III, center at bottom, speaks at the Lincoln Memorial during the "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" in Washington, D.C."We're taking a step forward on America's rocky, but righteous journey towards justice," King said. The event also featured family members of Black Americans who have been killed by police or in other racially-charged incidents, including Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin and others whose names have become rallying cries during recent national protests demanding their killers be held accountable."I wish George were here to see this right now," Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd said. Demonstrators will again gather in Washington on Friday to call for racial justice and police reform.Politics of the moment Racial justice and police reform is a hot-button political issue as election day draws near.Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris appeared at the march in a pre-recorded video telling the crowd that the nation is on the verge of something never seen before in the U.S. The California senator is the first Black and first Asian American to be nominated as a vice presidential nominee by a major U.S. political party.
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