On Tuesday, Obama attended a memorial service for the five slain Dallas officers and called the families of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota to offer condolences.
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“There is an actual Black Lives Matter organization and there is a chapter in Toronto, but nowhere else in Canada”, said Tamir. We are seeing this in the Black Lives Matter movement and, simultaneously, among police departments across the nation.
“We were sad, sad because all this was going to was another hashtag, sad because we felt voiceless”, Mdour said.
She said: “I feel like every life matters and quite a lot of the time we’re quick to just listen to news and stereotypes and actually people are people”.
Britny Morrison with Black Lives Matter also states, “We have to kill that fear and tear down those walls”. “It sprang up because there are folks in this country who believe their lives don’t matter”.
Most rallies have been peaceful, though a shut down of I-94 in St. Paul last Saturday resulted in more than two dozen officers being injured.
Manitobans are invited to gather at the legislative building on Wednesday for a vigil for black people slain by police across North America. “It’s kind of sad to come out here and the crowd is predominantly white and we’re talking about black lives matter – now that hurts”.
Police officers’ lives do matter, Ramsey points out.
Other participants included mayors, law enforcement officials, activists and spiritual leaders according to the White House. What right do you have, I ask, blocking people from going home after working all day or from going to work?
“I think that everybody has to something to offer and I think the thing that all of us have to offer starting right now is to treat other the way that we want to be treated”, Johnson said.
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“I understand that. We understand that but what we are trying to bring out is the injustice in racial profiling which leads to mass incarceration of blacks, to evidence that’s shown on camera and people getting acquitted”, he said.
