A group of white activists on Thursday protested outside San Diego Police Department headquarters in support of Black Lives Matter.
The group's aim is to demonstrate the importance of white people standing in solidarity with African-Americans subjected to police violence after the recent fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
“White people need to care about racial justice and what is happening to black and brown communities,” said Aaryn Belfer, founder of the San Diego chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. “Specifically, the black community, they are being harassed and targeted, ticketed, arrested, over-policed essentially.”
Showing Up for Racial Justice is part of a national network of groups dedicated to organizing white people in opposition to police violence against the black community. Their goals include getting officials to transform policing in the U.S.
