South LA Activist request the community to unite for a march expressing change.
(Danny Bakewell, Sr. spoke outside the Sentinel officer announcing a march that will take place Feb. 21/Valerie Goodloe)
Executive Publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper Danny Bakewell, Sr. and local community activists, clergy and politicians gathered at the Sentinel offices January 14to announce a march that will take place on the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s death. “This is not just a demonstration, but it’s a sense of outrage we have for a complete disregard about life. We are creating a movement demanding accountability for the acts of the police. That is why we are marching on a very historic day,” said Danny Bakewell, Sr. February 21 the march will start from the Southwest Police Station and end with a rally in Leimert Park. The demonstration is in response to the recent killings of LA local Ezell Ford, Ferguson’s Mike Brown, NYPD’s Eric Garner and countless others across the country. “Part of this will talk about the life of Ezell Ford. His mother weeps everyday and when she weeps we all weep with her,” Bakewell, Sr. said.
Stay posted on the Los Angeles Sentinel website and paper for further information pertaining to the march.
