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Decatur student speaks out against police brutality at Atlanta protest

By Fiza Pirani
July 8, 2016

Seventeen-year-old Curry Carr was among the hundreds of Atlantans that gathered Friday for an evening demonstration following this week's officer-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.

The upcoming Decatur High School senior spoke in front of a large crowd of fellow attendees.

"When I wake up every morning," he said, "I am afraid to see what has happened and what injustice has been done the day before."

During a peaceful protest in Dallas Thursday evening, a sniper opened fire and fatally shot five officers, authorities confirmed.

Seven other officers and two civilians were also injured in the shooting.

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