Congressional Staffers Walk Out In Protest Of Police Killings

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Dozens of congressional staffers walked out of their Capitol Hill offices Thursday in a display of solidarity with demonstrators across the country who have protested the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

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At 3:30 p.m. ET, the staffers stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with their hands raised in the 'hands up, don't shoot' gesture.

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Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who has spoken out against the failure of grand juries in Ferguson and New York to indict police officers in the deaths of Brown and Garner, attended the event.

The walk-out was planned by the Congressional Black Associates, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Staff Association and the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association.