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Toy Slaughter raises a fist during a youth-led march against police brutality and environmental racism in Downtown. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham

Youth-led protesters against police brutality and environmental racism marched today through Downtown Pittsburgh for more than four hours, starting and ending at the City-County Building along Grant Street.

Around 150 people joined in, stopping a few times along Liberty Avenue and Grant Street. In response to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management barring some journalists from protest coverage, the group of protesters circled up near the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, and chanted “Fuck the Post-Gazette” numerous times. The protesters also called out a photographer who was on assignment for Post-Gazette and told everyone in the march not let the P-G photographer take photos of the protest.

Yvonne Brown, 73, gives an emotional speech about her experience as a Black woman in Pittsburgh during a youth-led march against police brutality and environmental racism in Downtown. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Leandra Mira shouts through a megaphone as she helps lead a youth-led march against police brutality and environmental racism in Downtown. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Toy Slaughter raises a fist during a youth-led march against police brutality and environmental racism in Downtown. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
A protest organizer takes a moment during the march. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Protesters shout at Port Authority Police officers as they pass by Wood Street T station in Downtown. Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Credit: CP Photo: Jared Wickerham

This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2020.

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