Former Tuskegee mayor charged after Black Lives Matter painted on street outside Alabama Capitol
Demonstrators wrote “Black Lives Matter” and “Expand Medicaid” on the street in front of the Alabama Capitol during a protest Thursday.
The painting happened during a news conference and demonstration by the Alabama SaveOurselves (SOS) Movement for Justice and Democracy. The group holds regular news conferences to advocate for the expansion of Medicaid in the state.
The protest began with a mock funeral service — with people lying down in front of the Alabama Capitol — that organizers said was to remember people who died without medical care and people who died from police shootings.
“We are living in a state where people are dying because we have a governor who will not expand Medicaid,” Faya Rose Toure said at the event. “We live in a state where people are dying from police shootings.”
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