Black organizers from the BYP100 and BLM DC have shut down the legislative office of the National Fraternal Order of Police to demand that police officers invested in accountability and justice stop paying dues to the FOP.
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“In this system all lives don’t matter, it’s told us that from the beginning”, said Dix.
But that aggravation doesn’t mean that it isn’t necessary to say “Black Lives Matter”.
“You can’t disarm (the police) and have the people armed”, Gaines-Smith said, holding a large Black Lives Matter sign.
While the association acknowledged that black lives, as well as those of other minorities, matter just as much as white lives, it argued that Somerville’s open support for the movement could imply that the department thinks otherwise. It shows the mug shots of 13 people booked for blocking I-95 in Richmond Monday and proclaiming, “Black lives matter”.
Kwame Rose, a social activist, artist and producer at The Real News Network in Baltimore, gained attention after confrontations over news media coverageof the #BaltimoreUprising.
“I’ve seen it where they’re essentially calling death to the police, and that’s not acceptable, whether you like them or don’t like them”, Donald Trump said in an interview with Bill O’Reilly.
But that progress hasn’t been fast enough for many in the reform movement, including members of a group that protested last week outside the Minnesota governor’s mansion.
In an op-ed for The Hill on July 18, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke wrote that the murders of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dallas “were not acts of domestic terrorism but guerrilla urban warfare against the police”. Not talking to one another, they said, would not achieve what they are hoping to do. Joshua Scott Hotchkin, a blogger who came to Cleveland from Iowa City, Iowa, to protest, said activism is a “free market” and differences only help to move the conversation.
“Peaceful protest to end violence and injustice stands at the core of our nation’s values and our democracy and we will continue our peaceful protest via the banner”, he said. Logan is suing for $1 million.
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Of course, it’s no surprise that Giovanni feels Simone would have joined the Black Lives Matter movement. “The lives of black people matter for nothing unless they can be exploited and savagely oppressed to build up the wealth of America”.
