{"id":69873,"date":"2016-02-12T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T00:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=69873"},"modified":"2016-02-13T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:49:24","slug":"unity-march-and-rally-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/02\/12\/unity-march-and-rally-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: \u2018Unity March and Rally\u2019 in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giHTpCAZYNk?showinfo=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPALMDALE &#8212; Dozens of residents and community leaders gathered in Palmdale Thursday morning for a rally promoting peace and unity.<\/p>\n<p>The Antelope Valley Unity March kicks off around 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in front of the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station on the 700 block of East Avenue Q.<\/p>\n<p>Marchers chanted, <em>\u201cWhat do we want? Justice!\u201d<\/em> as they made their way to Palmdale City Hall on Sierra Highway, where the event culminated in a rally.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the rally\u2019s speakers referenced <strong>Leroy Browning<\/strong>, the suspected DUI motorist killed by deputies Dec. 20, 2015 outside a Palmdale fast-food restaurant. [<a href=\"http:\/\/Man%20killed in deputy-involved shooting in Palmdale\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Read more on that incident here<\/em><\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>However, organizers stressed that the fatal deputy-involved shooting did not trigger the march and rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragedy on December 20 brought the leadership together to reestablish a network of concerned citizens and leaders to address issues affecting African-Americans and all other communities here in the Antelope Valley. \u00a0However, the incident is not the focus of the march and rally,\u201d organizer Nigel Holly stated in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the event was to \u201cbring forth awareness and begin contesting the violence plaguing our communities regardless of who is perpetrating the violence against us,\u201d according to Holly.<\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/23\/activist-group-issues-statement-on-fatal-deputy-involved-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activist group issues statement on fatal deputy-involved shooting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/20\/man-killed-in-deputy-involved-shooting-in-palmdale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man killed in deputy-involved shooting in Palmdale<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8212; Dozens of residents and community leaders gathered in Palmdale Thursday morning for a rally promoting peace and unity. The Antelope Valley Unity March kicks off around 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in front of the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station on the 700 block of East Avenue Q. Marchers chanted, \u201cWhat do we want? Justice!\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":69875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}