“There are wounds on our soul”.
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He also pointed out that in America, white lives have always mattered while blacks have often been oppressed.
Organizers have met with President Obama and other national leaders and confronted the two major presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Police say Lara told them he identified with the sovereign-citizen movement, an anti-government ideology.
That protest, and others across the United States, Britain and Canada, were held in response to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police officers last week.
Following the Dallas cop massacre, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick was quick to directly blame Black Lives Matter protests for the killings.
“They are on the same team”, said Phillip Goff, director of the Center for Policing Equity.
The Fort Worth Police Officers Association called Black Lives Matter “an organization that chooses to MURDER American law enforcement officers” over the weekend. She views the issue of racially directed police violence as the civil rights struggle of her time – one that can not afford to pause, even briefly.
“It’s a very oppressive statement”, said Woods.
Hughes said the church gathering was a place he could express emotions that were off-limits elsewhere.
“My solution to the tension between the police and the people – which I recognize as my own inner tension – is to seek unity, not find division”, he wrote, adding that community education and police reforms are also needed. “Pandora Radio openly supports an organization that chooses to kill American law enforcement officers”. Most of this nation mourns every time an officer is killed.
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In a post to its Facebook page, the group said yesterday that ‘guided by love, we continue to stand for justice, human dignity and…ending all forms of state violence against black people’.
