ATLANTA – Scores of mourners, some dressed all in white and others wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, gathered at the historic Atlanta church that was the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s pulpit for a funeral Tuesday for the Black man whose killing by police in a fast-food parking lot stoked protests across the U.S.
against racial injustice.“We are here because individuals continue to hide behind badges and trainings and policies and procedures rather than regarding the humanity of others in general and Black lives specifically,” the Rev.
Bernice King, the civil rights leader's daughter, said at the private service at Ebenezer Baptist Church.She noted ruefully that the killing took place in Atlanta, the “Black mecca" and “the city that is.