The gunfire was aimed at police officers that were keeping the peace at a demonstration of people in Dallas protesting fatal shootings of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana.
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Christian NFL star Benjamin Watson has shared his thoughts on race relations in America and called for unity in the wake of the shooting deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and five Dallas police officers.
Among those at the meeting where National Action Network the Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Cornell Brooks, Black Lives Matter Minnesota activist DeRay McKesson, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and National Association of Police Organizations President Michael McHale.
But he also heard from Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn, who expressed frustration with the distrust between the black community and his officers, and Teri George, the mother of a Baltimore police officer injured during riots last summer. Everyone knows that a police officer’s job is risky, but a cold despicable act with a gun may become the norm with so many individuals with legal permits, and mental health problems.
“We all go through the same things”. “When we start being proactive in our community instead of waiting on racially motivated instances to happen for us to unite and protest and march”. We get “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter.’ I understand the point they’re trying to make”.
“It’s very important for me to be out here being a young African American male in America”, he said. The latter, we sprawled over three events, brought the capital to a standstill as hundreds of protestors took to the streets in Southbank, Brixton and Oxford Circus.
Marcy said she felt she was racially profiled in the past by officers at the Fayetteville Police Department.
“I understand that and my condolences to the family”, he said.
According to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, in an interview to CNN’s Don Lemon: “Racism is a system – its not about people being mean to each other”. A police officer then got on top of her and covered both her and her son while two more stood by and protected them. “We are wanting to educate people on coming together and fixing our community as a whole”, Prall said.
Duncan Kirkwood is a member of Black Lives Matter Buffalo. “It didn’t” end with slavery, it didn’t’ end with Jim Crowe, it didn’t’ in the “60s”, said Thio Marigny, an organizer from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN).
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So yes, of course every life matters…but right now, there is a perception that many people in our community don’t include black lives in that “All”…so yes, Black Lives Matter (too).
