A 4-mile march is scheduled to take place in Boston on Monday, Jan. 19, at 1 p.m. The demonstration is aptly taking place on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to spread the message of MLK during times of increasingly tense race relations between police and the public. Marches are taking place around the country, and Boston’s will begin in front of the Old State House.

According to the 4-Mile March Facebook page participants will walk from the site of the Boston Massacre to the Museum of African American History on Joy Street.

“The mission of the 4 Mile March is two-fold: to bring awareness to America’s epidemic of racial profiling and police brutality, and to honor all those who have been injured or died as a result of police violence,” reads the Facebook page. “One of the most important steps we can take is to build mounting pressure upon our local and federal government to do what is right.”

 

News of the march, sure to induce traffic, comes just after protesters were arrested on I-93 both north and south of Boston for chaining themselves together for the same cause on behalf of Black Lives Matter. Twenty-nine people were arrested for causing delays on the highway, one of whom was an employee of the City of Boston and was fired shortly after.

At the center of all this turmoil are the police killings of Mike Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York.

“This march is separate from the Black Lives Matter Boston group, but some of those members may be at the march. This is really a coalition of different forces,” organizer Brock Satter told Boston magazine. “This action is just a simple demonstration … we are using a simple method of raising the issues, showing our strength in numbers, and through sheer force beginning to turn the tide of public opinion.”

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