It comes after 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot dead by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
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“We are sick and exhausted of the killings of young men and women in our communities”, she wrote.
You can read Kim’s full letter here. So even as officials continue to look into this week’s tragic shootings, we also need communities to address the underlying fissures that lead to these incidents, and to implement those ideas that can make a difference.
People For the American Way Foundation is a progressive advocacy organization founded to fight right-wing extremism and defend constitutional values including free expression, religious liberty, equal justice under the law, and the right to meaningfully participate in our democracy.
Beyoncé has urged the public to contact their local politicians to demand action.
‘Fear is not an excuse.
Scross the nation, Black communities have been mourning the senseless police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling.
Philando Castile was shot dead after the vehicle in which he was travelling was stopped by police near St Paul, Minnesota, late on Wednesday.
In a message posted on her website, Beyonce called on her followers to “take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us”‘.
President Barack Obama said early Friday that Americans should feel outraged at episodes of police brutality since they’re rooted in long-simmering racial discord.
That’s why, two years ago, I set up a Task Force on 21st Century Policing that convened police officers, community leaders, and activists. “Those are two separate things”.
Beyoncé also asked crowds at her Hampden concert, part of her Formation World tour show, to observe a moment’s silence following the shooting.
“When people say ‘black lives matter, ‘ it doesn’t mean that blue lives don’t matter”, Obama said, referring to police officers.
The celebrity star specifically invoked names pf Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and Sean Bell saying, merely hashtags are not enough to convey the injustice meted out to blacks and all this must end now.
Since the shootings in Dallas a number of protests have been held condemning police violence against civilians, especially people of color, and condemning violence against police. Hate will not win.
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We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action.
