As if to underscore the quick-moving pace and national scope of the issue of race and police brutality, the rally was held as two pieces of news about shootings in other states broke. Some at the rally got mobile push alerts that the Justice Department, led by new Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced it would investigate the Minneapolis police. Just hours earlier, officer bodycam footage of the fatal police shooting of Bryant, 15, had started circulating on social media. It appeared to show Bryant threatening another girl with a knife before she was killed by the officer Tuesday, around the same time as the Chauvin verdict was read in Minnesota.
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