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Black Lives Matter – The Protest
On June 6, 2020 by jmwebOn Friday, June 5th we had a rather large protest on PEI. It was for the #BlackLivesMatter protests and the crowd that gathered was nothing short of …well, huge.
It was the largest protest on Prince Edward Island that I have witnessed and it had a tremendous response. It started at the Coles building where everyone had gathered. While at the Coles building, there were people spread across the front & back of the Coles building, on Richmond Street up to the Murphy Community Centre, in front of province house to around Victoria Row.
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There were a ton of people out. Not hundreds, but thousands according to a police friend which was later agreed to by some others who work at The Guardian.
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The protest was announced earlier in the week and with it being scheduled for Friday it gave the organizers time to plan things out.
Prior to 5pm, there had been a ton of people around the Coles building. It was going to be a large protest. I spent some time quickly snapping some pics around here. As things were expected to start at 5pm, at a few minutes past 5, I had gone up to the Holman Grand. I had put out an invite to a few other photographers to join me and I had met them there.
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We had spent some time there until moving on. The location was amazing but we really needed to be in a plane to capture the magnitude of this. There were thousands of people taking over multiple city blocks.
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