Sharpton rips Trump's police comments ahead of D.C. justice march
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, July 29, 2017, 12:37 PM
They plan on keeping the faith.
In light of President Trumps casual comments appearing to endorse police brutality, Rev. Al Sharptons Saturday rally at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem was even more spiritual than usual.
Sharpton was joined by Gyalwang Drukpa, the head of the Drukpa lineage of Buddhism, ahead of next months planned Ministers March for Justice in Washington.
The march will mark the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s famed I have a dream speech.
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We have to get out on the street and work for the people, said Gyalwang Drukpa, draped in burgundy and canary yellow robes.
Without disrespecting the prayers, without disrespecting the meditation ... we physically have to go out and interact with the people and save the people, he said.
The Aug. 28 rally will include 1,000 ministers from a variety of faiths who will march from the MLK memorial on the National Mall to the Department of Justice.
Sharpton invoked Kings speech Saturday as he promised to fight the Trump administration.
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The basic tenets of that dream were fighting poverty, fighting for voter rights, fighting for criminal justice reform, as well as dealing with the critical issue of health, he said. Those are all threatened today.
Trumps comments, made during a speech in front of cops on Long Island, came as he called for a crackdown on MS-13 gang members.
Dont be too nice, the President encouraged a crowd of uniformed police officers.
When you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head, like dont hit their head? They just killed somebody, dont hit their head? I said you can take their hand away, Trump said.
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Sharpton railed against the comments Saturday, calling them a reckless disregard for the law, and set a tone that is dangerous and biased in this country.
He also took issue with Trumps use of the term paddywagon.
Gyalwang Drukpa agreed and compared the fight for justice and equality under the Trump administration to the oppression that Buddhists have faced in Tibet and the Himalayas.
You guys are talking about the marching, and that is such a beautiful, peaceful thing that we should do ... for the purpose of justice, he said. And we, back in the Himalaya ... have been doing the marching for kilometers and miles, thousands of miles across the Himalayan region. We walk for the peace and for the justice.
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