Soul Performer Attacked Onstage After Dedicating Song To Trayvon Martin

Lester Chambers of the legendary Chambers Brothers suffered injuries in the attack.

[Chambers] was performing at the Hayward-Russell City Blues Festival in downtown Hayward, California, when he was suddenly rushed by a woman identified as 43-year-old Dinalynn Andrews Potter after he dedicated Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready” to Trayvon Martin shortly following George Zimmerman’s acquittal.

Chambers’ wife Lola said the 73-year-old musician told audience members that Mayfield would have changed the lyric “there’s a train a comin” to “there’s a change a comin” were he alive today.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.