He said fringe actors have used the movement to justify the killing of innocent police officers.
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First of all, ADL has not endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement. That Friday, she also chose to make a statement by wearing a pin that said “Black Lives Matter”, which is the name of a growing social movement that spotlights police brutality against black Americans.
Brickner said that Black Lives Matter is not a political statement but a “statement that black lives are important and recognizing that black people are historically and systematically discriminated against in the United States”. “I feel that local government is specific to our community”. And white privilege exists.
“At some point, to not do or say anything is complicit”, Milesnick told The Associated Press.
She said she supported Clinton because she “has the courage to lead the fight for common-sense gun legislation”.
The black attorney from Youngstown, Ohio was sentenced to five days in jail after she disobeyed the judge’s order to take the pin off, which is more than the majority of cops receive when they have wrongfully killed a person of color while on the job.
Curtatone said opposition to the banner wasn’t shared by all police officers.
But not everyone has been able to turn their sympathy into action.
Before the march began, the woman told white people at the protest, “Take your rightful position, behind us”.
She said her comments haven’t been warmly received the few times she has tried to broach the shootings with friends. Despite the support that the movement has received thus far from prominent musicians, including Beyonce and Jay Z, the hip hop world has been accused of failing to speak up about the importance of Black Lives Matter, with some rappers like A$AP Rocky going as far as denouncing the movement altogether.
Xu says that, before it became clear that Castile’s shooter was not Chinese, she was anxious that similar dynamics might surface in the wake of this case, and that many Asian Americans would rally to support another Asian cop who killed a black man. So she put out a call on Twitter asking other young Asian Americans to help her draft an open letter through Google Docs, addressed to their families – in English and eventually translated into dozens of other languages – about why they felt that Asian Americans should also care about police violence against black Americans.
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“They’re not here to be the bad guys”, said Jones. Change is formed within, Cummings said. “Where the really honest white people have got to do their ‘proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America’s racism really is – and that’s in their home communities; America’s racism is among their own fellow whites.
