PRINCETON: March planned through town to focus attention on police shootings

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
A group of black clergy and others will march through Princeton next week to focus attention on police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana and the subsequent shooting of police in Dallas.
Following a worship service on the Princeton Theological Seminary campus, about 60 people will have a silent walk to Tiger Park in Palmer Square around 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Seminary and Princeton Police officials.
The demonstration is expected to last until 10 p.m.
Clergy and lay leaders will be in town gathering at the Seminary for a weeklong conference called the Black Theology and Leadership Institute.
“It is appalling and disgraceful that our society has so utterly failed to address systemic racism that African-Americans do not feel safe walking on the streets or driving in their vehicles,” Seminary President M. Craig Barnes said in a statement posted Friday on the Seminary web page.
“Our anger and confusion were compounded by the slayings of the five police officers in Dallas,” he continued. “We are in the throes of profound social upheaval and crisis.”