Elected prosecutors and members of the Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network (ICAN) will cross Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday, April 22 to commemorate Bloody Sunday.Â
ICAN is made up of people who were incarcerated as children and sentenced to extreme or life sentences.Â
The group will be in Alabama for three days as part of an exploration of the history of systemic racism through slavery and Jim Crow laws.Â
Featured will be:Â
10th Judicial Circuit of Jefferson County, Bessemer Cutoff Division District Attorney Lynneice Washington and Fair and Just Prosecution Executive Director Miriam Krinsky, as well as prosecutors, including District Attorneys Satana Deberry (Durham County, N.C.) and Mark Dupree (Wyandotte County, Kan.) and Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb.Â
The group will arrive between 9:20 and 9:30 AM at The Selma Interpretive Center on 2 Broad Street. The bridge will be closed from 10:00-10:15 AM for the event.
The event will be livestreamed at Fair and Just Prosecution's Facebook page here.Â
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