Deoshea Leaman, the main organizer, confirmed today that the event is still on. There are over 200 people who say they are going.
Mason City police and other town leaders seem to have little idea that the walk is going to happen. Ms. Leaman told NIT that she was going to seek the go-ahead from Mayor Eric Bookmeyer, but he never responded to her requests for a meeting, even though she went to city hall in person. She says she went to city hall twice looking for him.
The route for the peace walk appears to begin at at 6 PM at “Sears and ending at the baseball diamonds”, according to information on a social media page.
Ms. Leaman describes the reasoning behind the event this way:
“Based on recent events in our community, the rise on violence have become a all time high. This needs to stop! We as a community need to come together and bring peace! In regards to these tragic events, we have decided to do a peaceful get together. A walk to end violence, a walk to start peace. We need to start a trend to reverse these horrible things happening. There are children in this community! They are watching and learning. This isn’t the way they should grow up. We all have a past we may or may not regret. But things shouldn’t be like this!! In memory to all we have lost, this walk is a reminder that no matter what we can lose someone in matter of seconds. Let’s come together and being peace! It starts with you! You are welcome to make custom t shirts! Anything peaceful and to the point. Bring plenty water! Everyone is welcome to join, remember this is a PEACEFUL get together!!! (sic)”
4 thoughts on “Peace walk still on for Monday evening”
Would it have killed ya to correct the girl’s English instead of (sic)-ing her?
No one can take this girl seriously. Sure she preaches peace, but she’s a trouble maker. She needs to actually walk the walk for quite awhile before she can talk the talk.
This girl is a bully, a thief, and carries on the Foster name pretty much to a T. I’m all for peace and bringing the community together, but jeez pick a different frontman.
115 pictures posted for a walk that included about 15 people? Bit overkill.