Robert Pastures and his family, including his three young children, stood on the pedestrian walkway along Route 72 and reflected as the remnants of the crowd completed their walk of solidarity at the eastern entrance of the thoroughfare bridge near Mallard Island Yacht Club on June 6.

“There’s hope,” said Pastures, a Bayville resident and bartender at Doyle’s Pour House in Barnegat, who walked among at least 2,000 others during Saturday’s “Black Lives Matter” march organized by Southern Regional…