“They should not put up any banner”, Ron Martinelli, author of “The Truth Behind the Black Lives Matter Movement and the War on Police”, tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview.
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“We’re going to be the next generation in office, so we need to be in there knowing what we’re doing”, his friend Unique Worthy added. He criticized the city’s support for Black Lives Matter after violence and threats at its protests, and said an “All Lives Matter” banner would include murdered police officers. “And how do we lead a community conversation around that here?”
“We’re here to have love and unity and uplift the names of the lives we lost”, said Young, a 25-year-old Moreno Valley resident.
“Any activity like this is good because it brings attention to the issues that are occurring throughout the country and in this community”. “This is a representation of who we are collectively”, said Sykes of the group of people who came out Friday night.
Roderick Simpson joined the march in hopes it will spark positive change in Lima. “Black people are left behind, criminalized and over-policed in their own communities and forced to leave”, the release reads.
On Thursday, the chief of Somerville’s police stepped into the disagreement. “We’re so happy”, organizer Paula Collins said as she and other organizers sold black t-shirts adorned with the movement’s slogan.
The march started and ended at Veterans Park.
“The terrifying vision that Donald J. Trump is putting forward casts him alongside some of the worst fascists in history”, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza said in a letter to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“We want everybody to understand and take a walk in my shoes”. They may or may not have agreed with the message that protesters were sending, but they stood up to facilitate and protect protesters’ right to speak their mind.
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