Check out this movie clip which captures the passion and pain of families affected by deaths in custody:

Death in custody march 2006
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZAncul1NvI

I think I understand why you plan to do this. Police brutality and deaths in custody are horrible and disgusting, and I notice that this is organised by black majority churches, which obviously highlights the racist nature of the police. You want to do something, but feel isolated and powerless. I feel the same.

But prayer won't solve anything. How many times have people prayed in police cells, only for the police to come in anyway, and subject them to vicious attacks? Probably millions. God will not stop the state attacking communities, only community action in the physical world has the potential to do this. I'm not going to tell you how to do this, I don't have all the answers. But I do believe that unity is strength, and through unity oppressed people will eventually find the answers.

Prayer is just another form of symbolism and it means something to those that will take and to many of the affected families. There is more than one way to show solidarity! Don't knock it!

I'm sick of these holier-than-thou campaigners who think that it's just "their way or the highway"
If you think that ordinary people using ordinary methods to show empathy or solidarity is wrong, outmoded or irrelevant; then you are really just as bad as the oppressor who tries to stifle free thought and expression. Maybe you are really on the wrong side of the fence?

Wake up and smell what you're pushing!!
Alison, you go girl!