Good Friday weirdness in Mt. Pleasant

At around 9 o'clock on Friday night there was a crashing sound, and then a swarm of police and ambulances on the main strip of Mt. Pleasant Street. Police officers unrolling crime scene tape were visible from my apartment windows.

A few minutes later, there a low rumbling...like chanting...and someone on a loudspeaker, unintelligible. The source of the chanting soon became apparent as a huge procession of people holding candles and carrying purple banners began to file across the street, next to the scene of the accident...followed, ultimately, by a truck containing a full band.

What had at first appeared to be a zombie invasion turned out to be a perfectly normal Good Friday procession to the church at 16th and Lamont. I don't think the car accident was related, though.