Against the backdrop of police officers who brutally killed a man during a traffic stop and another who was working to provide for his family, the Dallas officers were providing a powerful counter-example of policing by engaging with, serving and protecting the community.
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“He didn’t have a gun in his hand, but they put bullets in him and then hit him with a shotgun”.
During the 2014 World Cup, operations to secure cities hosting football matches left at least 580 dead and police-related shooting deaths increased 40 percent, the rights group said.
“We’re here today to make sure that no legislation that will continue to criminalize black people and protect killer cops is created”, McCants said. My own son is a black man of 25 years old who lived in St. Paul when he attended Macalester College. Instead of being divided and debating phrases, white Americans should recognize the different experience black Americans have and they should understand that when people say black lives matter, they aren’t saying that white lives don’t matter – they’re simply saying that they want their lives to matter like white lives already do.
“It’s always been excessive and unnecessary to treat people in an intimidating way; to suppress their rights and treat them as inferior simply because you’ve been removed or displaced from them and their way of life for so long”, Williams said. With my brother [the chief] never apologized. “They were both tragedies”. “It is inconceivable to us as it is demoralizing that our city would propagate its support for this movement while standing silent over the seemingly daily protest assassinations of innocent police officers around the country”, Somerville Police Union President Michael McGrath said in a July 19 letter to Curtatone. “Well, every time a black person steps out of their residence, they can lose their life, because that’s what’s happening”.
In Washington, D.C. this morning (July 20), members of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter-DC (BLM-DC) have assembled outside the legislative office of the national Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).
In a word, that’s how J. Richard Cohen, president of SPLC, responds to that request in a column for Time Magazine. “I hope adding police to the Louisiana hate crimes statute helps deter that kind of despicable activity”.
Some expressed frustration that it had taken the death of a white man to draw attention to the local issue of police shootings.
Others, like Damon Thomas, who is black, 19 and graduated high school the same year as Noble, said they saw themselves in the teenager.
“I’m kinda putting my money where my mouth is”, he said. This is getting over the top now, but this is how sometimes I feel.
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Brenna said that frustration was evident in the strong attendance at the event.
