Augustans march in Dyess Park following continued crime wave

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – From Dyess Park to Might Park, households, group leaders, and pastors marched to unfold the message, “No extra silence, finish the violence.”

Nic Filzen is a Reverend on the Augusta Unitarian Universalist Church, and he says he got here to the march together with his children as a result of he needs a change for his or her future, “I’ve worries for them rising up in the USA that the entire nation struggled with gun violence to see how colleges should not secure in any respect.”

Members of the group left the vitality of energy, peace, and hope in at this time’s march towards gun violence. 

Organizer Montana E. Johnson hopes this march conjures up others to be proactive in ending the violence, “A number of occasions, lots of people don’t actually really feel it till it hits dwelling. When it occurs to any person in they household, then they’re like, oh, we have to cease the gun violence. However we have to work on this on daily basis.”

Leaders like Mayor Garnett Johnson and Reverend Larry Fryer teamed up with native companies and native pastors to march for the longer term generations of Augusta.

Reverend Filzen says every of us has a duty to come back collectively and make the group safer for everybody, “It’s a matter of religion for me to be right here in solidarity with people who’ve been most straight impacted by it.”

The CSRA’s crime wave not too long ago surpassed 70 slayings since April of final 12 months. Over a handful of these occurred because the begin of this 12 months with Augusta being hit the toughest.

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