Protesters gather in Justice Edward O. Gourdin Veterans Memorial Park in Roxbury in honor of Breonna Taylor and against police violence on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
Masked protesters listen to speakers with flowers in hand on Friday as police watch from above. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
Police watch protesters from the roof of Roxbury Police Office on Friday as news and police helicopters circle overhead. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
A protester raises their fist as a speaker calls for justice for Breonna Taylor on Friday. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
Two women hold signs from the roof of a car at Justice Edward O. Gourdin Veterans Memorial Park on Friday. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
Marchers raise their fists in protest as they head down Malcom X Boulevard toward the Boston Police Headquarters on Friday. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
A man raises lit incense to bless passing Black Lives Matter protesters on Friday. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
A woman gestures at the Boston Police Headquarters in Roxbury on Friday. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
Protesters shout at police officers in front of the Boston Police Headquarters on Tremont Street on Friday. Photo by Caitlin Faulds/BU News Service 
A speaker addresses the crowd at Ramsay Park in Boston on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. “My name is Breonna Taylor,” she said. “My name is Trayvon Martin.” Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
Several hundred cross Boston on Saturday in protest of police brutality. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
An onlooker shows solidarity with Boston protesters on Saturday. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
People gather in Ramsay Park on Saturday to protest police brutality. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
A woman steps out of a Dorchester restaurant to observe the passing protest on Saturday. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
Customers and employees step out of a hair salon as protesters pass by on Saturday. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service 
Sirad Zahra, from Mass Action Against Police Brutality, takes photos of protesters on Saturday. Photo by Anoushka Dalmia/BU News Service
By Anoushka Dalmia and Caitlin Faulds
BU News Service
Hundreds of people gathered in Boston this weekend to protest police brutality and racially-charged violence.
Friday night witnessed a crowd of several hundred marching from Nubian Square to City Hall after a Kentucky grand jury declined to charge any police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor last March. Speakers from Mass Action Against Police Brutality, Party for Socialism and Liberation and Violence in Boston urged people to take action regardless of November’s election results.
“The only people who have the back of Black women are Black women. And today I remind you, Black women are the metric of your liberation,” said 16-year-old Hawa Hamidou Tabayi to an impassioned crowd at Nubian Square.
A few hundred also gathered on Saturday afternoon to call for the reopening of criminal cases involving police-inflicted violence, including the conviction of David Wright. Protesters marched from Ramsay Park in Roxbury to Doherty-Gibson playground in Dorchester. Many people came out from houses and establishments to show support to the marchers.
