More than 200 people took to the streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens on Monday, Oct. 11, to call for a more human approach to the justice system through investing in social support structures and violence prevention over law enforcement and incarceration, according to one of the organizers.
“This is about human justice. If you start with ‘criminal,’ justice is not possible, but when you start with human all things are possible,” said Divine Pryor of the Jamaica, Queens-based violence intervention nonprofit Community Capacity Development. “We are marching because we are here to take back our humanity, humanity that had been snatched away by centuries and decades of oppression.”
