“When you say black lives matter, that’s inherently racist”, Giuliani said.
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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.
To them, “All lives matter” isn’t a slogan or a movement. It is an attempt to end dialogue before it has begun.
In the USA, the Black Lives Matter movement gained prominence after deaths of black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police.
The first casualty of the week was Alton Sterling, who police in Baton Rouge, La., busted early Tuesday for selling bootleg compact discs. By another black, not by a police officer. Most of this can be attributed to the fact that we are now living in the “Information Age” and so acts of police brutality are quickly exposed on social media sites and spread across the globe whereas before, they were contained. What a sorry coincidence. It gathered strength in ensuing years following the deaths of other black men at the hands of police in New York, South Carolina, Baltimore, and elsewhere. U.S. police have killed at least 512 people in the same period, according to a tally by the Washington Post. Where, I wonder, is the National Rifle Association when a gun owner like Castile has his concealed-carry rights violated?
The news turned even more tragic during one of several nationwide protests on Thursday night. In Canada, Black Lives Matter activists brought Toronto’s gay pride parade to a standstill in protest. Two civilians were also wounded. Like the president, these protesters maintain that the police are motivated by racial prejudice, not by the behavior of suspects.
The almost three dozen people invited to the White House included some police organizations that have little regard for Black Lives Matter, a group they blame for inciting violence against police officers.
AMERICA is not even close to where it needs to be in terms of resolving issues between police and the communities they serve, President Barack Obama has said.
So, when people say “Black lives matter”, he said, “it doesn’t mean “blue lives” don’t matter, it just means all lives matter”. “You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to higher standards”. Video showed Dylan Noble, an unarmed 19-year-old in Fresno, Calif., who was fatally shot June 25 by police as he was lying on the ground after a traffic stop for speeding, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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So love without dissimulation, because all lives matter. His point was simple and in hindsight hardly controversial: In a country where two months prior four children had been killed in a church bombing, in a country where five months prior Medgar Evers had been shot to death in his driveway, in a country where police were regularly training fire hoses on marching teenagers, it was perhaps not entirely surprising that the atmosphere of violence might reach any part of society. Some have described the remarks as an insult, an all-too-quick condemnation before all the facts are in and a failure to acknowledge the thousands of cops who do a good job and routinely risk their lives.
