After various allegations of police brutality and targeting the African-American community, the Black Live Matter movement was created in the summer of 2013, grabbing the most attention after neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, was acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin.
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Clarke has long straddled the border between mainstream Republicans and the conservative movement’s paranoid extremes.
Coleman, who is part of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, says the larger concern here is the content of Clarke’s message on Twitter.
Christie quickly responded “Sure, they are, they’ve been chanting in the streets for the murder of police officers”. It was a statement that appeared to lend credibility to the controversial (and highly speculative) “Ferguson effect”, which argues that video-recording technology and heightened scrutiny of police officers by the public has simultaneously disempowered police officers and emboldened criminals. And when I’m in the Oval Office, police officers will know that they will have the support of the president of the Untied States.
The movement has become an issue in the presidential campaign.
James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has gone on record against the Black Lives Matter movement and all mass protest against police crimes. Democrats and those on the political left focus on the allegations of police brutality, while giving a pass to those who act out with violence. Add to this the nearly daily rate of a Black persons being killed by the police and we see clearly that Black people are targeted.
Christie didn’t make a clear distinction between Black Lives Matters as an organization and its supporters.
And the notion that the president speaking out for Black Lives Matter automatically means he’s against the police-or the same thing happen with Bill de Blasio, with you had-you had New York City police officers turning their backs on the mayor because he has a black son and dared to speak about things that he knows are going to affect his son and affect his family.
Christie said Obama has not “backed up” law enforcement since taking office.
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“Out the gate, he’s saying “Black Lies, ‘ so anything that comes with the ‘Black Lives” movement is a ‘lie, ‘” Coleman said.
