Stafford residents gathered for a peaceful rally at the Stafford Marketplace shopping center to protest police brutality and encourage community participation.
The rally was held outside a Target store at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon to protest the actions of police brutality that took the life of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, 46. Residents gathered to hear speakers implore them to take action on the local level, to press leaders through the ballot to make sure that the events that have happened in Minneapolis and around the country don't happen in Stafford.
“Too many times we will not show up to the voter’s booth, too many times we let all of our decisions be made for us and do not do anything but complain about what we get. We have got to show up and we have to do what we’re supposed to do. Too many people have died for our ability and our right to vote, but we still do not do it. Our participation is horrible at the voting booth, that’s where we need to fight. And if people don’t do the job we elected them to do, then we get them out of there,” said Vernon Green Jr., founder of GCubed, Inc. a North Stafford IT firm, who led the rally.
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