He obliged, meeting privately with the woman whose father was killed on Staten Island two years ago this week after he was put into a choke hold by police investigating whether he was illegally selling cigarettes. An investigator said the officer was prompted by Sterling reaching for his gun, but mobile phone video of the shooting from different angles appear not to support that claim. And an off-duty police officer in Missouri fatally shot a man who was trying to enter the officer’s home.
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A protest in Dallas organised after the shootings became the scene of an attack on police by Micah Johnson who killed five officers in a sniper attack.
“Black Lives Matter is not saying other lives don’t”, Wash said.
Jade Dudley with Black Lives Matter says, “Now we’re going to turn around and plant that seed and let it bloom!” What can law enforcement officials do more of?
Also weighing in on the matter, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had a controversial interpretation of events when he spoke on television Sunday. “So, if you want to deal with this, on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police, the real danger to them, 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times are other black kids who are going to kill them”.
After some Black Lives Matter supporters and their counter protesters spent a few minutes together and realized they’re bonded by peace.
One that is usually present in conversations about police brutality is #BlackLivesMatter.
He said 49 officers were ready for the protest, and they would have been called if things got out of hand.
“It is time, now, for the US government to strongly assert that black lives matter and prevent any further killings as a matter of national priority”.
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“As a non-black person of color, I’m Latino”, explains Dylan. I think some people just need to deal with it, and not look at the name but look at the issues that are associated with the group. This includes, but isn’t limited to, increasing the use of special prosecutors in police-misconduct investigations; implementing improved and robust law enforcement training, including de-escalation; and mandating data collection on police misconduct and fatalities and injuries involving the police to ensure transparency. As he boarded an elevator to his grandparents’ apartment, he said, an older white woman who lived on their floor stepped off and declined to ride with him.
