Protests continue, spreading to Granite Falls and Mukilteo

MUKILTEO — Protest marches and demands for racial justice continued and spread Sunday as hundreds gathered in Granite Falls and Mukilteo to seek equity, better representation and legislation to ban chokeholds by police.

Kamiak High School alumni Alex Callaway and Jordyn Porea organized the Mukilteo demonstration that drew a crowd large enough to fill out the parking lot of the Mukilteo Speedway Taco Bell. It was a response to the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.

Even thousands of miles removed from those tragedies, Callaway and Porea said they experienced racism in their communities, and that’s why they chanted “Black lives matter” and marched along the busy roadway.

Porea, a Kamiak senior, said she grew up as one of the only black children and often heard from her peers that she didn’t “act black.”

“That’s a stereotype,” she said.

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