PHOTOS COURTESY OF AUTUMN IVEY
Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano
(Aliquippa, Pa.) AUTUMN IVEY SAID SHE WAS DRIVING THROUGH ALIQUIPPA SATURDAY NIGHT ON HER WAY TO WORK. SHE SAID GOD TOLD HER TO ORGANIZE A PROTEST IN ALIQUIPPA. SHE CALLED AND GOT PERMISSION ACCORDING TO POLICE AND IT WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST OF 100 PEOPLE. IVEY SAID IT STOOD FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. MAYOR DWAN B. WALKER SAID IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. THE PROTEST WAS AT THE POLICE STATION AT 10 A.M.SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2020
IVY SAID SHE REACHED OUT TO HER LONG TIME FRIEND DEMETRIUS DORSETT , AND HE AND HIS FRIENDS WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY PROTESTS BEING HELD ON SUNDAY. SHE CALLED POLICE TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT SHE INTENDED ON DOING . SHE SAID THAT HER INTENTION WAS TO STAND IN PEACE AND ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO JOIN HER, NO MARCHING OR RIOTING OCCURRED. SHE SAID SHE GOT 200 COMMENTS ON FACEBOOK SUPPORTING HER INTENTIONS. . SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF TO MAYOR WALKER SUNDAY MORNING , AND TO THREE ALIQUIPPA POLICE OFFICERS, SHERIFF TONY GUY, AND COUNTLESS OTHER COMMUNITY OFFICIALS AND BUSINESS OWNERS. IVEY GAVE A SHOUT OUT TO HERB AND ANGEL BAILEY FROM UNCOMMON GROUNDS CAFE’ FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND SHARING THEIR AMAZING ENERGY. SHE SAID THE COMMUNITY STOPPED AND STOOD TOGETHER, ARMS LENGTH APART, MASKS ON AND SIGNS IN THEIR HANDS.
SHE SAID THE PROTEST LASTED ONE HOUR AND AT 11 A.M. THEY LOCKED ARMS, HELD HANDS, AND STOOD AROUND THE AMERICAN FLAG IN FRONT OF THE ALIQUIPPA POLICE DEPARTMENT. REVEREND BAILEY LED THEM IN THE LORD’S PRAYER FOLLOWED BY THE CHANT “NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE”.CHECK OUT PHOTOS OF THE RALLY BELOW COURTESY OF AUTUMN IVEY
