When the group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators was not allowed in Sunday, members made a decision to fearless hot Texas summer temperatures and march up and down a commercial street.
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Following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota by police last week, the Louisville chapter of Black Lives Matter held a vigil on Sunday in remembrance of the two men.
“This is definitely not an anti-cop thing”.
“Yeah, we’d say it’s racist”, Meyers admitted.
Giuliani said he understands that police officers can act improperly and the reasons why the black community may distrust police, but added that he believed the American people were getting the “wrong impression” on the issue because of a continued focus on the Black Lives Matter movement. Some critics say the group incites violence against police officers, and chooses their outrage selectively, staying silent about black on black crime.
Mckesson offered his response Monday afternoon during an appearance on MSNBC, his first interview since being released from jail following his arrest during a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge over the weekend. They circulated an online poster about the gathering on social media to encourage anybody interested to participate. He also trotted out the fake statistic that Black children have “a 99 percent chance” of killing each other. And several Black Lives Matter activists were quick to condemn the slayings in Dallas. “They want a more safe, more equal society”.
Q: How do we ease that tension going forward and put our fingers down on who’s to blame for all of this?
Trump added that has heard some Black Lives Matter activists say “horrible, awful things about police and about others”.
He linked to a news article about a Black Lives Matter supporter – not a member of the organization itself – who has been accused of killing a state trooper in Kentucky.
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That petition, which garnered about 1,200 signatures by Tuesday, states, “A petition to recognize the black lives matter movement was started and that’s not what the movement is about”.
