Rodney Square Rally Focuses on Peace
When Mahkieb Booker was deciding five months ago when to hold an anti-violence rally in Wilmington’s Rodney Square, he decided on Saturday afternoon.
Booker figured the time would be right for an end-of-summer rally, considering that street violence seems to increase during the summer.
The evangelist with Wilmington-based Warriors 4 Christ couldn’t have been more right, unfortunately.
Booker and several other speakers at his 1,000 Man March made a call for action Saturday from below the base of the park’s Caesar Rodney statue, just feet away from the site where Thomas L. “Cannibal” Cottingham was stabbed to death Sept. 14 while protecting a woman and her young child from an attacker.
The 1,000 Man March, named to piggy-back off of the upcoming Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, drew about 200 men, women and children, all in search of the same goal: reducing the violence plaguing Delaware’s largest city.
