And though the protest at City Hall and LOVE Park echoed previous rallies - chants of I cant breathe, signs declaring Black lives matter! and a die-in symbolizing lives cut short - a religious aspect ran through the event. It was organized by Muslims and began and ended with prayers. Its part of black American Muslim tradition to stand for social justice. We need only go back a few decades to Malcolm X . . . and being a part of leading civil disobedience back in the late 50s and into the 60s, said Dash Brookins, 43, who led the call to prayer at the start of the rally.
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