Bridgewater officials canceled the township council meeting, but protesters showed up any to rally against the treatment of a Black teen by police earlier this month at a nearby mall.
The teen’s opponent in the fight, another teen who isn’t Black, offered to be cuffed, but was instead directed to sit on a couch inside the Bridgewater Commons mall while officers got on top of the Black boy. The incident, which was captured on video and has gone viral for the officers’ response, isThree Black Lives Matter chapters — of Elizabeth, Paterson and New Jersey — organized the rally in support of Z’Kye, who also goes by Kye.
Rally organizer Kason Little of Black Lives Matter New Jersey, left, watched as Zellie Thomas, of Black Lives Matter Paterson, spoke to the crowd outside the Bridgewater Municipal Complex.Between 50 and 100 people stood in the municipal plaza, the crowd growing over the course of the rally’s first hour before beginning to dwindle in the cold. Echoing
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