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JUNE 12, 2020 | NORTH AmERIcAN Newsline | The Indian Eye 23

iACf initiates a peaceful protest in

support of #Blacklivesmatter

Our BureAu but unfortunately a lot of pro-
testers have resorted to looting
San Francisco thus encouraging more police

ndo-American Community violence. The protest in the City
Federation (IACF) initiat- of Fremont had nearly 400 peo-
Ied a peaceful protest, which ple who walked from Washing-
was very quickly reciprocated ton High School all the way to
and led by Association of In- the Fremont police headquar-
do-Americans (AIA), BATA ( ters.
Bay Area Telugu Assn), TANA The Mayor and some com-
(Telugu Association of North munity leaders spoke in front
America ) and many other In- of the police station and all of
do-American community mem- them echoed the same message
bers including City council of condemning the police offi-
members Raj Salwan, Vijaya cers involved in the killing and
Aasuri of AIA, Jairam Komati address racism issues deep root-
of BATA and former Planning ed in this society. Jeevan Zutshi,
Commissioner Yogi Chugh. founder of the Indo-American
The Indo-American pro- Community Federation (IACF)
testers joined with other main- was part of the protest on Thurs-
stream group including students day in Fremont, California, and
who were demonstrating against said, “he came to this country 48
the death of 46-year-old George years ago, but had not seen what
Floyd, an African-American we have been witnessing right
man, who died on May 25 after now. So many times, so many
white police officer killed him things have happened but this
mercilessly in Minneapolis. The is on such a massive scale across
incident has brought the entire the nation.
country to stand together with We have this community
Black Lives Matter. which has been historically dis- racism and police violence are Everyone else was united in
It has sparked protests never criminated as it is very evident ever present. There has to be a saying that the root cause of rac-
seen before of this magnitude that the stress and trauma of major change in the policy.” ism must be addressed.

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