Also on the list were Mica Grimm, with Black Lives Matter Minnesota, and DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a charge of obstructing a highway. Never mind that all official Black Lives Matter operatives I am aware of have cried foul on the murder of the Dallas police officers, which is a fact that is inconvenient to simplistic arguments.
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That makes it the deadliest attack on US law enforcement since September 11, 2001.
Similar marches have been held in Manchester, Birmingham and in London. Police have not yet released their identities.
“While we may think that because we are not in America these issues don’t affect us, the truth is, this happens in the United Kingdom as well”, Sasha Blair, of Black Lives Matter Leeds, the organisers of the event, told The Voice.
“We have to kill that fear and tear down those walls”, said Morrison. White lives matter. Asian lives matter.
US President Barack Obama is to meet police chiefs at the White House following a series of shootings. His goal is fundamental transformation of the United States. To say that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist is clearly a misunderstanding of history as well as the reasons it emerged and how the group operates.
This group isn’t just mourning the black men who have been killed; they too are grieving for the fallen Dallas officers. In Canada, Black Lives Matter activists brought Toronto’s gay pride parade to a standstill in protest. “All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks”. On Friday, New York-based think tank Center for Policing Equality published a study of more than 19,000 incidents spanning five years and concluded that the use of police force against African-Americans is more than three times greater than it is for whites.
The Left persists in these lies because, well, that’s what these people do.
Likewise, he added, the police shootings are not “reflective of the professional work that members of the law enforcement community conduct dutifully every day”. KAKE’s Ben Jordan says a few people are heading to their cars, as if they might be leaving.
Only 3 percent, or 13 people shot and killed by police year to date were black and unarmed. In 2011, London police shot and killed Mark Duggan, a black father of, sparking riots in London and other United Kingdom cities.
Black Lives Matter is focused on “ending violence in our communities”, she said.
The power of the Black Lives Matter movement to galvanise people concerned about police misconduct has not stopped at America’s borders. It’s doing incredible harm.
That’s when the Civil Rights Act passed. It is a simple cry for black lives to matter equally, recognising that until they do, then it is impossible to say all lives matter.
Returning to the situation in Dallas, as of 11:45 p.m.
The Dallas Police Department is not ideal, of course. Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings (D) said the shooting began at 8:58 p.m. local time. The other deceased officer worked for DART. There is a system that targets young black people because of a stereotype that they are risky, without actually looking at who they are.
The stories of Alton Sterling and Philander Castile – both black men – should be a wakeup call for every American.
Even as he praises the vast majority of police as hard-working and well-meaning, Obama has drawn attention to racial inequities that contribute to friction with minority communities.
The Left reveres thugs. Mental health crisis. Racial conflicts. According to Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds, who live-streamed video on Facebook of the stricken man in his final moments, Castile was trying to retrieve his wallet after informing an apparently Caucasian attending officer that he was in possession of a concealed weapon and a permit allowing him to carry it. Or maybe the cop was nervous and trigger-happy.
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President Obama is challenging Americans to have an honest and open-hearted conversation about race and law enforcement.
