CHARLOTTE, N.C. — People joined in solidarity in Charlotte to remember Sonya Massey, the woman who was shot and killed by an officer in Illinois.
Officials, organizations, and community members paid their respects to Massey at Marshall Park as part of a vigil.
Other parts of the country also mourned Massey's death and stressed the importance of improving interactions between law enforcement and the community.
“We just need to come together and look at what's happening and start to make some changes,” Sevhn Robinson, a resident who attended the event, said.
"We could do the same conflict resolution that they're doing there," Stephanie Harrison, a member of the Stop Killing Our Children Support Group, said. "Maybe it could bring some type of unity between the two."
“We're gonna keep going. We're gonna keep pushing forward," Tiawana Brown, a Charlotte city council member, said. "We're going to keep mobilizing and coming together. We will get the change that we're looking for because we're fighting and this is a fight today. And so when we fight we move.”
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