BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Protest: George Floyd -- Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march

DC -- Protest: George Floyd -- Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march:

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Description of Pictures: NOTE: So, no, I didn't actually get into the rally or the march. I waited in a line that looked like it was at least 7 blocks long. After an hour, by 10am I had advanced at best two blocks. Doing the math, it was clear that I wasn't going to get in for the rally (11am - 1pm). The march (1pm - 3pm) would have meant waiting another 3 hours so I gave up and went home. I was happy taking public folk pictures though.
On Aug. 28, marchers are expected to walk down the sides of the reflecting pool and gather at the Lincoln Memorial, according to the application. They will continue south to Independence Avenue and march to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
Details of the Aug. 28 rally for criminal justice revisions — the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” march — have begun to crystallize in recent days as the Rev. Al Sharpton announced a lineup of speakers and the NAACP unveiled plans Monday to supplement the protest with three days of digital programming meant to reach those unable to attend the march.

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2020_DC_Necks_March_200828: DC -- Protest: George Floyd -- Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march (44 photos from 2020)
2020_DC_Necks_MarchU_200828: DC -- Protest: George Floyd -- Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march -- Labor contingent (32 photos from 2020)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NECKS_200828_003.JPG: Lawn chairs, BTW, were prohibited at the event but things kept changing so I have no idea if they stuck to that rule.
2. NECKS_200828_050.JPG: This was my first exposure to the line to get in. They were requiring a temperate scan and a wristband. But this line went all the way down to... probably the Einstein memorial and then wrapped back again.
3. NECKS_200828_056.JPG: And the line kept going.
4. NECKS_200828_064.JPG: So the line in the foreground went down to probably the Einstein memorial before it joined the main one on Constitution Avenue. The line behind them was the end of the line to reach this middle of the line.
5. NECKS_200828_133.JPG: My favorite picture from hanging out around the Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march (the anniversary event for the famous 1963 March on Washington) was this couple. The couple -- Marvin-Alonzo Greer and Cheyney McKnight -- looked at photos from the 1963 march and decided to dress for that one. Marvin had made his poster based on pictures he had seen at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Cheyney's pennant was the same. They both sported (copies?) of buttons from that March. Except for the masks (which I was glad they wore), the only real difference is that pretty much every photo I remember of the 1963 march was in black and white.
6. NECKS_200828_180.JPG: Free Supply Time to March Take some supplies! - Masks - Snacks - Sanitizer - Water - Sunglasses - Chapstick BLM
7. NECKS_200828_263.JPG: Black people have the right to move without fear. If you tolerate racism, delete Uber.
8. NECKS_200828_305.JPG: The freebie package that I picked up.
9. NECKS_200828_310.JPG: Commemorative sunglasses.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Trips: Because of COVID, the farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC -- and didn't do any overnight travel anywhere. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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