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The speakers talked about continuing the fight toward equity for Black Iowans at the Black vigil in Des Moines last night. We re going to continue to do this. This group of people you see here, we re not tired, no, we re jaded, Reverend Rob Johnson (second from left) said. When I say Black lives, you say matter! Black Lives!
Rev. Rob Johnson bobbed his fist as more than one hundred people responded the way he instructed last night at a vigil in a Des Moines park to support central Iowa s Black community.
The vigil was meant to serve as a reminder to people to continue acknowledging the struggle of Black Americans and to work to fight inequities. Many speakers talked about former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd.