Word on the Hill: Women’s March From NRA to DOJ

By Alex Gangitano

Posted July 14, 2017 at 5:00am

There’s another Women’s March today and this time, organizers are inviting protesters to march from National Rifle Association headquarters in Virginia to the Justice Department in D.C.

Organizers said the goal of the 17-mile march is to “to protest NRA’s incendiary & racist actions.”

The day starts with a rally at 10 a.m. at the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Va. and the march begins at noon. Organizers will hold another rally at the DOJ on Saturday at noon.

Last month, Women’s March co-organizer Tamika Mallorywrote an open letter to the NRA demanding that the gun rights group take down a recent ad that march organizers said incited violence. Mallory also called for a statement from the NRA defending Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Minnesota last year during a traffic stop. Castile had a permit to carry a firearm.

The NRA has since posted a video entitled “We Don’t Apologize for Telling the Truth,” explaining why it would not take down the ad. The video referenced Mallory and her letter.

Mallory told News One Now on Tuesday: “We want [them] to know you can’t silence us, but also we need to make sure there’s a spotlight put on the hypocrisy. We want a federal indictment who shot and killed and executed Philando Castile.”

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