Lawmakers hold ‘Hands up, don’t shoot!’ Ferguson protest on U.S. House floor
Four U.S. Congressmen held their hands in the air on Monday in a show of support for protesters incensed by the fatal shooting of 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown by a Missouri police officer.
The gesture, synonymous with the phrase “Hands up, don’t shoot,” has become the symbol of an expanding nationwide movement of communities outraged by the state of law enforcement in America. A chief concern of protesters, who’ve taken to shutting down major roadways in U.S. cities like New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver and Seattle, is the asymmetrical use of police force in cases involving black Americans.
The gesture was used by Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) and Al Green (D-Tex.), members of the Congressional Black Caucus, to show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Mo., outraged by a St. Louis County grand jury decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson, who on Aug. 9 shot and killed an unarmed Brown.
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