“It is our duty to fight for our freedom”, Black Lives Matter Tampa chapter president Donna Davis told the crowd.
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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.
Trump said he was disturbed by the images of the killings of Alton Sterling, who was shot by police last Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after being pinned to the pavement by two officers. They said it’s one of the only ways to get their point across.
Asked by the AP what he would say to African-Americans who feel targeted by police due to their skin color, Trump replied, “We have to talk to ’em and we have to build up the spirit …”
Even worse than that was when Giuliani labeled Black Lives Matter “racist” and said people would say the same about him if he started a “White Lives Matter” group. “Because all lives matter”.
But lost in the discussion is a sense of what Black Lives Matter is and what it stands for. Seth Meyers on Monday took “A Closer Look” at reactions to those events to prove that there were as many people finding common ground in the aftermath as there was division and fear-mongering.
A representative from the Black Lives Matter protest and a representative from the counter-protest met each other in the middle and shook hands.
Black police Jay Stalien is wearing his law enforcement uniform protection. If black and Hispanic-Americans were incarcerated at the same rates as white Americans, current jail populations would decline by 50 percent. That’s just a simple fact.
They both have skeptical feelings about Black Lives Matter.
The former U.S. Attorney harkened back to his days as a prosecutor, saying all he ever cared about was finding criminals, regardless of their race. “That’s what proper profiling is about”. Only the lives that make the national news matter to them.
“I’m a big fan of the police in this country”.
“And certainly if they’re going to allow that to go along rhetorically, this is not a good thing for our country”, he said.
Dressed in all black, the group marched with fists in the air, stopped at a corner, holding up signs that read, “Will I be next?” and listed the names of Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
But Kelly Orians, a 30-year-old white public defender who attended a die-in protest in New Orleans, said the two movements are not and should not be equal.
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Giuliani also about the violence that had been running rampant in Beford Stuyvesant when he became Mayor. “We need to replace the violence with justice, then we’ll have peace”.
