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The 34th annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon will take place on Sunday, October 4.
The 34th annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon will take place on Sunday, October 4.

Black Lives Matter to Protest at Twin Cities Marathon

Organizers cite allegations of police brutality

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The 34th annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon will take place on Sunday, October 4.

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The St. Paul, Minnesota, chapter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement announced on Friday that it will stage聽a protest at the finish line of the 2015 Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday, October 4, . Race organizer Twin Cities in Motion (TCM) that it had been notified by city officials of the protest.

Rashad Turner, a leader in the BLM St.聽Paul movement and one of the organizers of what has been dubbed the 鈥,鈥 spoke with 国产吃瓜黑料 on Monday and cited multiple police brutality allegations since January that led to Sunday鈥檚 protest. He expects several hundred protestors to show.聽鈥淲e want to do everything we can to force the change,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 think we鈥檝e waited long enough trying to do things a certain way that would appease the morals of white America, and now it鈥檚 just time to do things differently and not be worried about getting the sympathy of white people.鈥

TCM first issued a statement on Friday, acknowledging its awareness of the planned protest, and expanded it on Monday, saying, 鈥淐ity officials are advising on logistics and recommendations and we will share that with you as soon as it is available.鈥

鈥淎ll of the runners I've talked to, and based on the comments I have seen, they're not happy,鈥澛燦athan Freeburg,聽founder of , an online running community, told 国产吃瓜黑料. 鈥淭he people I've talked to think that this is not a productive way to get [the BLM] message out.鈥

Turner said that the only way protest organizers would call off Sunday鈥檚 planned action is if TCM would encourage a Department of Justice investigation into the St. Paul Police Department.聽When asked whether he had been in contact with Twin Cities in Motion, the race organizer of the Twin Cities Marathon, Turner said he has not but is open to it.

鈥淎 lot of these runners are coming from places where they can keep black issues at an arm鈥檚 length away. Maybe they don鈥檛 even have to encounter any black people to deal with our realities,鈥 Turner said. 鈥淸The Black Marathon] is making them have to think about it.鈥

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