“Black children are still dying for our freedom,” Howard said. “And it’s senseless. And it’s unfair. And it hurts. It hurts so much that every fiber in my being screams that they have to stop killing our children. "And when I say our children, I don’t mean black people, I don’t mean white people. I don’t mean any particular race or ethnicity. I mean all of our children.” Pastor Marcus Collins of Lake Elam Missionary Baptist Church in Millbrook spoke to the group and said Brown and others have been “victims of Barney Fife police officers with itchy trigger fingers.” Collins said the circumstances of the shooting raised many questions. “Because he was unarmed, makes us question the police department,” Collins said. “Because the investigation is a slow-moving process makes us question the police department.”
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