'Defend Black Lives' Event Set For Katonah

KATONAH, NY — To mark Juneteenth, there will be a "Defend Black Lives" event Friday in Katonah. According to the organizers, this is part of a nationwide weekend of action.

Participants will gather at 1 p.m. outside the Katonah Village Library, 26 Bedford Road in Katonah, and walk together along the sidewalk through the village, organizers said.

The event organizers’ demands include defunding the police, investing in communities of color and charging officers for police brutality against African Americans.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when news of the end of slavery in the United States came to Texas more than two years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863.

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