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US Medical Students Stage 'Die-ins' Nationwide in Protest Against Police

Medical students have staged so-called die-ins at planned venues in 70 locations around the US as protests against perceived police impunity continue to grip the country.

  • The Guardian
  • (December 10, 2014)

The die-ins, in which participants lie motionless on the ground in public, have become synonymous with the wave of protests following separate grand-jury decisions not to indict in the killings of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown and 48 year-old Eric Garner, both black men, by white police officers.

Student activists, along with grassroots civil rights campaigns, have played an important role in keeping the protest movement going.

Julia Jeffries, a 23 year-old second-year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and another protest organiser said the protests were also intended to shed light on the “institutional racism” of healthcare in the US.

“We want to recognise that we know the medical system is not excluded,” Jeffries told the Guardian, “that there is bias and racist practises in the field and system of medicine that we’re hoping to show that we don’t agree with.” Learn more. 

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