As riots broke out in major cities across the country, the Lehigh Valley stayed peaceful, but that doesn't mean they didn't come out in support. On May 25 George Floyd died as a police officer knelt. One person at the Bethlehem march tells us "Everybody came out, everybody is showing support but we need to understand why we're here. The inequities of the justice System had been going on for a long time. it took someone being murdered on live television his neck being pressed for over 9 minutes this is not new."
Despite the anger over the incident no one in the Lehigh Valley started any fires, or looted any stores. We spoke Glenn Granitz, the Allentown Police Chief, who attended Saturdays rally at 7th and Hamilton. "After everything we've been through it feels really good to me the conversation that the mayor and I and elected officials of the city have had with black lives matter group locally and some other key community people today. I'm excited to see where those conversations are going to go but that's the expectation here In Allentown. It’s that we're different and we're able to discuss and move forward together and what we're seeing so far here today is a great example of that."