The advocacy group Black Unity helped organize the event, which was one of many similar demonstrations across the country that summer following the killings of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor that year.
Springfield agrees to pay $700,000 settlement over police response to 2020 protestDemonstrators gathered in Springfield’s Thurston area on July 29, 2020 in protest of a noose that was hanging from a tree in a nearby yard.www.opb.org