They’re hoping no one will mention the awkward fact that blacks punch way above their weight in the percentage of crime they commit.
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Obama’s predecessor, President George W. Bush, also addressed the packed hall, where five chairs were empty of people, holding folded American flags, in memory of the slain officers.
On Monday, the presidential candidate who keeps accidentally disseminating his fans’ neo-Nazi memes told the Associated Press that he has heard some Black Lives Matter activists say “horrible, disgusting things about police and about others”.
“We know that the overwhelming majority of police officers do an incredibly hard and unsafe job fairly and professionally”, Obama told a memorial service for the slain police officers. And we have to get people to really get along. No institution is entirely immune.
– @PeterRo42387421: Next time a group wants to oganize a police shoot, do like Dallas tonight, but have extra men/women to flank the Pigs!
At an event meant to honor police murdered by a racist cop-hater, Obama chose to slander cops as racist, placing them on the same moral footing as Johnson. All lives will matter once black lives start mattering.
“The conversation that took place around this table is very different than the one that you see on a day-to-day or hourly basis in the media”, Obama said.
White House officials did not dispute Pasco’s account of the meeting. Obama talked and talked and talked and talked. It also included police chiefs, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D), St. Paul, Minn. Thank you for your honesty and service’.
Some of the kookier celebs in the video are Black Power-supporting conspiracy theorist Alicia Keys and self-described “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones.
What we’ve learned from the Dallas police shooting is that Clinton is betting Republicans are too sissified to challenge her on her support for BLM. A day later, 32-year-old Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. The recidivist was arrested not for making eye contact with anyone but because he fled police.
After Martin, the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police gave rise to more voices of protest. “Because we’re pretty clear that those lives matter and our institutions are built to protect those lives, whereas our institutions are not built…to protect black lives”. “The cultures in every city are difference and Black Lives Matter responds to those cultures”.
Meanwhile, Cotton plans to organize a panel discussion for his community about the recent shootings and protests.
“To be quite honest, I’m running on fumes”, Brown said during an at-times emotional press conference.
Jay Stalien, a black man who identifies himself as a police officer in Riviera Beach, Fla., published a viral essay on Facebook attacking Black Lives Matter.
Police groups and activists emerged from the meeting saying they didn’t always agree with each other on the issues, but they did agree the meeting was productive and could lead to building trust and improving accountability in police departments. Only the lives that are taken at the hands of cops or white people, matter. “I have family in America, and I fear for their lives”. My own black people killing others over nothing. “And we have to think long term to fix that problem, or history will keep repeating itself”.
But when he tried to do his job and fight crime he was called “Uncle Tom” and “wanna be white boy”, Stalien writes.
There’s very little reason to imagine that most black people think any better of them than the rest of us do.
“I’d rather work with him, honestly”, Bohannon said. They feel they are under threat every time they are stopped in the street or are pulled over in their cars. “So why was I the enemy?”
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On the opposite corner, Black Lives Matter protester Ty Hardaway felt the same way.
