A teen-organized demonstration touted as a rally about “violence against minorities” will not have the support of Black Lives Matter: Grand Rapids.
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On July 10, Newberry shared an article about people driving over “Black Lives Matter” protestors in the streets with the personal comment, “I’ll just leave this right here…”.
“We don’t want to be Black Lives Matter”, one of the teens said Thursday.
The teen organizers say they will have an American Civil Liberties Union speaker, a representative from Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss’s office, music, a prayer and a poem reading.
Mckesson wrote he will be joined by fellow activist Brittany Packnett and Minneapolis-based Black Lives Matter leader Mica Grimm.
“If all lives matter was true, we wouldn’t, in fact, need Black Lives Matter”, she said.
Sanford police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett said department officials have called in extra officers for security and will have officers from other local law enforcement departments as well.
Vincent said his favorite photographs showed the energy of young people involved in the protests.
The majority of current protest marches happening in Atlanta and around the country are being led by the Black Lives Matter organizations that burst on the scene a year ago after a number of police killings of black citizens. “We just want to do this, have our say, exercise our Constitutional rights and go home”.
“I think it’s good to bring awareness to police brutality”, Watson said. This disconnect is something the rally organisers seem to be trying to reconcile with their strong emphasis on expressing solidarity with both the black community in the United States and the Indigenous community in Australia. “(Newberry’s Facebook posts) certainly may be a violation of policy, but we have to make sure we do things correctly in terms of the First Amendment”.
“I understand that and my condolences to the family”, he said. I believe all lives matter. Two videos showed two police officers holding Sterling face down on the ground while the shots were fired. They never expected more than 400 people to say they plan on attending.
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“Everything is going to be okay as long as we continue to work together and push together, we are going to give respect to the ones that lost their lives for no reason”, he said.
