During the Cardinals’ recreation towards the Brewers on Friday evening, a bunch of protestors unfurled a banner protesting the new Jason Stockley verdict, the place a white police officer was once acquitted of killing a black citizen.
Protests had been happening because the acquittal a fortnight in the past, and on Friday a couple of hundred protestors additionally marched towards Busch Stadium and accumulated to chant “No justice, no baseball!” consistent with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The banner depicted a cardinal, to compare St. Louis’ baseball mascot, with #Be expectingUs written around the chicken’s jersey and the chicken conserving a “Black Lives Matter” signal.
Across the ground, in massive black letters, the signal mentioned “Stop Killing Us.”
According to the Post-Dispatch, the protesters had been escorted out of the stadium through police after the unfurling.
The demonstration mirrors a identical banner unfurling at Fenway Park a couple of weeks in the past, which was once targeted on general race problems in America.