[Press Release] Nonviolent Peaceforce Community Safety Team will be Activated on April 16, 2021

Date: April 16, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nonviolent Peaceforce Community Safety Team will be Activated on April 16, 2021

Nonviolent Peaceforce will be activating Community Safety Teams at demonstrations at flashpoints following the death of Daunte Wright.

BROOKLYN CENTER, MN, April 16, 2021— On April 16, members of Community Safety Teams will be providing unarmed civilian protection outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department at 7:00pm.

Community Safety Team Uniform

NP is independent and nonpartisan. If you are looking for information about the demonstrations, we refer you to this link.

The members of Nonviolent Peaceforce Community Safety Team are an unarmed civilian protection team and are committed and trained to prevent violence and focus on keeping everyone safe.

Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a global civilian protection agency (NGO) based in humanitarian and international human rights law. Our mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side by side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. NP envisions a worldwide culture of peace in which conflicts within and between communities and countries are managed through nonviolent means. We are guided by principles of nonviolence, non-partisanship, primacy of local actors, and civilian-to-civilian action. For more information visit www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org.

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Onsite press inquiries to be directed to Kalaya’an Mendoza, Director of U.S. Programs

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