A police officer, there to keep the groups from violence, joined them in prayer.
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Men and women from the Confederate waving side shouted insults and chanted “Blue lives matter”, seemingly after Micah Johnson killed five policemen in the town last week.
In America, vocal debates are celebrated.
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An officer then went through the group one-by-one informing each person that they were breaking the law by obstructing a public way.
But a critical part of our vaunted freedom of speech is the responsibility to listen. All Lives Matter, YET! all lives do not share or have the Black American Slavery his-tory of hundreds and hundreds of years of killings.
Elizabeth tweeted: “At least one White Lives Matter is carrying a gun”.
This Thursday, President Obama at his town hall on the rising separation between racial justice and policing, supported the Black Lives Matter movement.
That’s a concern worth heeding and responding to. He minces no words when he says, “We’re asking cops to do too much in this country” or, addressing protesters around the country, “We’re hiring”. But that doesn’t mean we should tolerate racism or crime. “To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, dismissed perhaps even by your white friends and co-workers and fellow church members again and again and again – it hurts”. It also seems we have reached a tipping point in what any society can tolerate when it comes to injustice.
Unfortunately, some people refuse to listen.
Far from believing that black lives matter more than other lives, or that their lives should always matter first, this movement wants its proper place at the table alongside everyone else, not instead of them.
Shortly after, several police officers circled the group. As he gradually accelerated they shoved back, refusing to yield for more than a dozen feet, until police officers intervened pulling people out of the way as the driver sped up.
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Cantaloupe said that recent events and activism are not prompting Cocoa police to reappraise its approach to law enforcement or the way they interact with the community. Congress and Washington must adopt “zero tolerance” for racial policing-and the killings and murders that result from it. That’s evidence of a positive relationship. He closes with the most hauntingly real statement, one that will stay with me.
