AP >>> Police protests draw old, young, white and black <<<

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In this Dec. 3, 2014 photo, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, third from left, marches with NAACP activists toward the Gasconade River just outside Mount Sterling as they continue the "Journey for Justice" from Ferguson, Mo., to Jefferson City, Mo. McFadyen-Ketchum who read about a grand jury{2019}s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for Michael Brown{2019}s death in Ferguson, Mo., flew from Colorado to St. Louis to participate in the march. (AP Photo/Missourian, Hannah Baldwin) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT


Dec 9, 4:49 PM (ET)

By ADAM GELLER

The mostly white crowd that gathered outside Salt Lake City's federal building hoisted signs reading "Black Lives Matter," and chanted for justice before wading into downtown traffic. In the historic Boston suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts, protesters with children in tow stood alongside others in their 80s.

Across the country, protesters angered at the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers have turned out in recent days, many in cities far removed from where the most highly publicized cases have played out. They are students and grandmothers, experienced protesters as well as novices, often as many white as black.

But while marchers speak emotionally about being galvanizing by this cause, both they and authorities on the fiery history of U.S. social protest are hard-pressed to figure where the demands for change will lead.

"Is this a movement or a moment?" said Marshall Ganz, a Harvard University lecturer whose perspective was shaped by participation in the 1964 Freedom Summer civil rights drive in Mississippi and then by 16 years working to organize migrant farm workers.

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