“Our police officers died for Black Lives Matter movement”, Rawlings told “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday. “All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks”.
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A black police officer has explained why he is against the Black Lives Matter movement in an emotionally charged Facebook post that has been viewed thousands of times.
The manner in which Black Lives Matter receives unsolicited advice from the public is rather unprecedented for the 21 Century.
Former civil rights leader Joe Hicks accused some on the panel of believing conspiracy theories.
‘I couldn’t help but wonder if it had been me, a black man, a black cop, on TV, assassinated, laying on the ground dead, .would my friends and family still think black lives mattered?
Political commentator Lisa Durden was especially fired up as she fought to complete her comments amid other raised voices interrupting her.
Police spokesman Capt. Paco Balderrama said Monday that 24-year-old Brandon Lara was arrested Sunday on felony counts of attempting a terrorism hoax and possessing an explosive or incendiary device. “All communities murder each other”. (They also reveal that whites tend to be killed by whites.) This observation does not speak to the matter of racist policing and police brutality.
“In Seth Meyers” opinion, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s issue with the Black Lives Matter movement all comes down to the fact that he’s subconsciously adding a word to the activist group’s name that isn’t actually there.
But the Fort Worth Police Officers Association appears to be the first major police organization to straight up accuse Black Lives Matter of killing cops – crimes that the movement’s founders have publicly condemned. However, Black Lives Matter has no chapter in Dallas, according to the group’s website. Homicide data do show that black victims are most often killed by black assailants.
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“We chose to remove any part of the post that could create insensitivity as we simply want unity in our communities”, the Fort Worth Police Officer Association’s communications director, Officer Anthony White, told The Dallas Morning News on Monday.
