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Peaceful Stand on Penn Street Bridge

Photos by Susan L. Angstadt

Jun 15, 2020

Scenes from Monday’s ‘Peaceful Stand on Penn Street Bridge’, organized by Coach Tyrone Nesby, boys basketball coach at Muhlenberg High School.

Students and members of the Greater Reading community lined the Penn Street Bridge in Reading to stand together and raise awareness of the need to address systemic racism through systematic change in Berks County.

Speaking at the opening of the demonstration, organizer Tyrone Nesby.

Speaking as the demonstrators assembled, Reading Police Chief Richard Tornielli

 

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