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Footage of Cleveland students chanting Kendrick Lamar's 'Alright', after a protest against police harrassment resulted in a 14-year-old being arrested and the crowd being pepper-sprayed, has gone viral. Watch it below.
The incident occurred as a crowd of Cleveland State University students were leaving a Black Lives Matter conference. According to witnesses speaking to ABC News 5 Cleveland, a resulting protest against police brutality ended with police pepper-spraying several people.
They also arrested a 14-year-old boy who was reportedly accused of being drunk on a bus when he was approached by officers. Following this, the crowd began chanting "We gon' be alright," - a lyric from Kendrick Lamar's 'Alright'.
Watch Cleveland students chanting Kendrick Lamar 'Alright' below
The song appears on Lamar's critically acclaimed album To Pimp A Butterfly, which frequently tackles issues of race and police brutality.
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera recently caused controversy when he claimed that hip-hop, and Kendrick Lamar in particular, "has done more damage to young African Americans than racism."
Speaking to TMZ Live, Kendrick Lamar responded to Rivera's comments. "How can you take a song that's about hope and turn it into hatred?" he said. "The overall message is 'We gonna be alright'. It's not that I wanna kill people. The problem isn't me standing on a cop car - I think his attempt is really deluding the real problem, which is the senseless act of killing these young boys out here."
More about: Kendrick Lamar