“They weren’t looking for their names to be up in lights”. As a people, we should be banding together to end injustice.
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Television news producers know by now that having Rudy Giuliani on their programs is like broadcasting a ten vehicle pile-up happening in real time-so that’s why they book him.
Yashica Clemmons, mother of Dominique Battle who died after driving a stolen vehicle into a pond while being chased by Pinellas County deputies in March, was one of many to speak during the demonstration.
All Lives Matter speaks not only to the unwarranted killings of black people by police, but to the police officers shot at a peaceful rally in Dallas and the mass shootings in Orlando, Newtown and San Bernardino.
A counter petition on the White House website sprung up on Sunday urging the Obama administration to not recognize Black Lives Matter as a terrorist group.
Major protests have been held across the U.S. in recent days, after several black Americans were fatally shot by police. As you can see it the video below, the Dallas shooting had a strong emotional impact on the surgeon, having put him in a hard position between the violence against the police officers and the violence committed by police against black males. With Orlando, it’s rainbow.
Seth Meyers put it well on his show last night: “First of all, don’t ever start a sentence with the phrase ‘If I were a black father.’ If you are a black father, you don’t need to say it”.
Clayton Gumowski, 28, of Richardson, another Dallas suburb, said he was frustrated by the president’s “lack of leadership, blaming guns instead of the madman”.
The petition was created on July 6 – the same day that Castile was shot and killed during a vehicle stop in suburban St. Paul – by a user only identified as Y.S. and quickly gained momentum following the next-day slaying of five Dallas police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest.
“There will be more incidents like this, I think”, he predicted.
He added: “There is so much crime in the black community”.
The demonstration, organised by the Anti-Racism Network Ireland and the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, comes as a fresh wave of protests have gripped the United States following the recent shooting by police of Anton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Neither side should stereotype the other, said Gregory Thomas, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Over the course of the campaign, black activists have had mixed feelings about the response from whites – commending those who have supported the effort yet decrying what they perceive as disinterest or hostility from a majority of whites.
Yes, LIke Jar Jar Binks before them, large eyed Pokemon Go characters like FireRed, LeafGreen, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, X, Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire; are all really just stand ins for black people. “And that is our ultimate objective”.
Obama has talked repeatedly in recent days about honoring law enforcement and convened a task force in 2014 to address divisions between police and the communities they’re sworn to protect. Evans didn’t say anything or resist arrest, Bachman said, and the whole encounter “wasn’t very violent”.
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As for Obama’s own role, if his voice is “true”, he told aides, he can help the country work toward unity. I can demand justice when trigger-happy cops kill blacks they deem suspicious just because they exist, just because they drive certain cars or just because they have wide noses.
