And several Black Lives Matter activists were quick to condemn the deadly violence against Dallas police.
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Bolling and Williams butted heads over Obama’s remarks at the memorial, with the former saying that the president should not have mentioned Alton Sterling – who was shot and killed by an officer in Louisiana days before the attack – during the service.
The controversy over the phrase “all lives matter” has become especially pronounced after two African-American men died at the hands of police, and five police officers were shot dead by a gunman during a Dallas, Texas Black Lives Matter protest against the deaths. “What can community leaders do more to fix this trust that in too many communities has been frayed?”
Haslam says the country has a lot of to do when it comes to the racial divide.
Clinton, speaking at Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition gathering, denounced her language and said, “If you took the words white and black and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech”.
With all the recent controversies surrounding white supremacy and police brutality toward black people, Jay Stalien poured his thoughts by sharing his own experiences living as a black law enforcement official in a city filled with black people.
In Cape Town, South Africa, dozens of members from the Black Solidarity Action group marched on the US consulate this morning to denounce the officer-involved killings of black Americans.
Tracie Washington, a black civil rights lawyer in New Orleans, expressed the same frustration with the Blue Lives Matter movement, as well as with a law Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards recently signed extending hate crime status to crimes targeting police and other emergency responders. Mckesson was released from jail Sunday.
Other activists present include the Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Cornell Brooks.
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Biden told CNN after Monday’s meeting that a couple of the police groups criticized the president while others told him he was “doing it just right” with his comments. But I mean Black Lives Matter is just a complete fraud. Whatever the circumstances ultimately turn out to be in those two cases, it can not be denied that there have been far too many such incidents in which African-Americans have been victimized, often fatally so, by police brutality. “They’re trying to do better, but I ask everybody to start at the level playing ground that there are police are there to serve them and to serve everyone”. Organizer Bobby Scott says police violence also happens in Tulsa. “The first time I heard it, I said ‘you have to be kidding”.
