African-American Congressional staffers conducted a planned walkout and protest at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to express solidarity with critics of the grand jury decisions in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases, respectively.
As The Daily Beast previewed, staffers walked out of their offices to express disagreement with the grand juries decisions not to indict the police officers involved in either case. Below are pictures of the walkout.
Walkout. pic.twitter.com/zg1guvKmtD
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 11, 2014
Congressional staffers walk out, protest on Capitol Steps, Senate Chaplain leads prayer #MichaelBrown #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/Z4iX3tqZvD
— Rachel Ryan (@rachel_e_ryan) December 11, 2014
From @GeoffRBennett: Congressional staffers stage walkout in protest of Garner and Brown grand jury decisions pic.twitter.com/0RNYS8RK0f
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) December 11, 2014
JUST IN @CNN: Congressional staffers walk out from jobs, protesting lack of indictments: http://t.co/Sj1ka3tSGB pic.twitter.com/6XVLBMg1nI
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) December 11, 2014
Unless they looted or burned something I imagine Fox news didn’t cover it.