Organizers Peter Forbes and Julie Noyes of Rangely told the 20 or so people gathered under the pavilion at Hefley Park in Rangely on Tuesday the event — a vigil to remember Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd — would likely be “anticlimactic.”
That’s not what the 200-plus spectators surrounding the park were expecting. Within a few hours of the vigil’s announcement on social media, at least one Rangely resident posted unvalidated rumors on…
I was touched by this support protest in Rangely and the coverage it received, and also, the non-violent responses from the observers. I hope that the observers learned something that expanded their perspectives about the important issues that were highlighted by the organizers, Peter Forbes and Julie Noyes. We should all be in this together to improve humanity and the world community.