The organization did make a special effort to have as many legal observers as possible to try to prevent any provocations against the protest or “any rising emotions within it”, he said. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump adviser, labeled the group “inherently racist” over the weekend in an interview with CBS News. Then he offered his assessment of the movement which has organized protests across the country in response to the deaths of African-Americans after encounters with police. And we have to get people to really get along.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday that black Americans “could be” subject to mistreatment by some police officers but that President Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement is deepening racial divisions.
Trump went on to predict the problem would only grow worse.
The demonstrators are holding their hands up and wearing T-shirts that read “Stop Killing Us” and “Black Lives Matter”. I looked two nights ago and you were having trouble in 11 different cities, big, big trouble.
Before he was killed, the Dallas sniper cited Black Lives Matter and said that he wanted to kill white people and especially white police.
“People have asked me before, ‘Well, is Black Lives Matter a legitimate saying or do all lives matter?’, and my first is all life matters”.
Bratton said he had no concern at all with Black Lives Matter, its name or impact on the community. There’s nothing anti-American about self-expression on matters of public policy, nor racist about speaking up for a victimized minority.
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“And certainly if they’re going to allow that to go along rhetorically, this is not a good thing for our country”, he said. “It’s a very, very divisive term”.
