DALLAS (AP) – A group of demonstrators protesting outside the Dallas County jail has dwindled to about a dozen, and the remaining participants are taking turns with a megaphone telling personal accounts of what each regarded as police brutality against them.
Meanwhile, a dozen Dallas County sheriff’s deputies stood in a shoulder-to-shoulder line Wednesday night to keep the demonstrators away from the jail, where the organizer of the demonstration was taken earlier.
Dominique Alexander, the founder of the Next Generation Action Network, had organized the rally downtown with assurances to police that there would be no march. After his late afternoon arrest outside City Hall on outstanding warrants, though, protest demonstrators at the rally decided on an impromptu march from the rally site to the jail on downtown’s western outskirts.
Alexander is an ordained Baptist preacher and a convicted felon whose uncle died in a police-involved shooting.
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