8/14/14 Vigil for Michael Brown in Malcolm X Park

Chris Stevens, 31, of Washington DC holds signs showing schedule and purpose of the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday night August 14^th.   /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Shante Harvey, 21, student at Southern University and Amanda Ferrara, 22, student at Indiana University hold signs showing the hashtag for the vigil to promote nonviolence and to remember Michael Brown and victims of police lethal violence Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

American University student Derek Siegel, 21, holds his hand-painted sign at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Shannon Kern, 32, holds a sign showing a Dallas Texas victim of police violence at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Twelve-year-old Jeremiah Patterson from Champaign, Illinois shows his concern about the death of a young black man in Missouri at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

The most prevalent sign held in Malcolm X Park during a vigil to promote nonviolence August 14^th is the declaration “Black Lives Matter”.   /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 Emily Johnson 25 from Florida holds a sign with the #hashtag for the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Large signs at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th show victims of police violence and the dichotomy of police action.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 About 2,000 people gathered in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14, 2014 to react to the killing of another young black man in Ferguson, Missouri.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

Michael Barczynski, 32 from Washington, DC, carries his hand-painted high above the crowd of 2000 gathered for a vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park August 14^th.     /Photo by Nancy Shia 

A painting of Michael Brownis held high at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 Carolyn Demougeot 24 from Maryland, Erin Miller, 24 from DC and Devon Minerve, 24 from DC show their feelings about violence in their signs at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

  Devon Minerve, 24 of Washington DC expresses a common outrage at police killing innocents at the vigil in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th to promote nonviolence.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

Wake Forrest student Melody Wang, 19 makes her feelings known in her elaborately constructed sign at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

An arrangement of flowers with a Maya Angelou wisdom rises from the ground of Malcolm X Park at the vigil to promote nonviolence in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th /Photo by Nancy Shia

 George Washington University student Amanda Friday 24; and Joy Whitt 28, show their hand-drawn signs at the vigil in Malcolm X Park to promote nonviolence Thursday August 14^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

Randhal Tabb 27, came from Baltimore to be at the vigil in Malcolm X Park Thursday August 14^th to promote nonviolence.   /Photo by Nancy Shia

The statue of Joan of Arc rises above almost two thousand people in Malcolm X Park August 14^th for a vigil to promote violence and to protest the killing of an unarmed young black man in Missouri.  /Photo by Nancy Shia