Faith leaders and community members gathered in Philadelphia to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on 55th anniversary of his assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
The commemoration began Tuesday outside the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral at 6:01 p.m., the exact moment Dr. King was killed on April 4th, 1968. The co-founder of the group RawTools sawed in half the type of rifle that James Earl Ray used to kill the civil rights icon.
RawTools, a non-profit organization, normally turns guns into gardening tools, but they plan on turning the destroyed rifle into a cross. In a city plagued with gun violence as badly as Philadelphia has been over the recent years, some felt the gesture was relatable on a different level.
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