Duke Students Continue Protests on Police Shootings

Duke students across the campus continued to add their voices to protests across the nation related to the controversial deaths of black men at the hands of U.S. police. Three different but related events were held Wednesday.

Above, More than 70 Duke medical students gathered together today at 12:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center to take part in a nationwide demonstration of medical students aimed at drawing attention to social injustice and racial bias. Students at more than 40 medical schools across the country were expected to take part in the “White Coat Die-In” protests.

Law students also participated in their own event "die-in." Holding signs bearing the names of men and women killed, participants, including students, faculty, and staff, laid on the floor in silence for 11 minutes — one minute for each time Garner told police he couldn’t breathe as they continued to forcibly restrain him. (For more, see here.)

In the evening, the Duke Divinity School held a candlelight community worship service of Litany, Lament and Liberation at Goodson Chapel focusing on the incidents. Divinity student Fatimah Salleh (pictured bottom) delivered the sermon.

Photos by Les Todd and Jared Lazarus of Duke University Photography