After Saturday’s event, a message on the Artivist UK website said volunteers were working on an official Black Lives Matter Birmingham chapter.
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Johnson wanted to “kill white people, especially white officers”, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said after the attack on Thursday night.
Protests continued across the country Monday after two police-involved fatal shootings last week.
“However, racism and injustice is not exclusively an American problem”.
Hundreds attended a Black Lives Matter rally this afternoon at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
“Since 1992 there have been at least 1,532 deaths in police custody, and more than 500 have come from BME backgrounds”. Once the gathering in the park ended, she and others marched and chanted through the streets near The Grove shopping center, as people in cars honked their horns in support. “I had an uncle who died in the line of duty. It’s a movement saying that state violence being executed against black people is unacceptable”.
“We may not know what to do to solve the issue, but by coming together we can move forward stronger and united as a group”. “We all matter. Hell!” one of them says.
“If I were a Black father, and I was concerned about the safety of my child – really concerned about it and not in a politically activist sense – I would say be very respectful of the police”.
“I hope it encourages people to start policing smarter and brings the community together with the police to do so”, said Dani Poole, a protester.
Hardaway spoke passionately to the other Black Lives Matter protesters to convince them to cross the street, telling them “God created you and he created my brother over there”, pointing at the counterprotesters across the street.
“With all Americans, we mourn those whom we have lost to violence and hated”.
In Wisconsin, a man posted calls on social media for black men to gun down white officers, and a woman in IL threatened in an online video to shoot and kill any officer who pulled her over, police said.
“We don’t want to be profiled as African-Americans, we also can’t profile law enforcement because the supermajority of them are trying to do the right thing”, he said.
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De Blasio noted that protesters in NY did stop and have a moment of silence for the five officers slain in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest.
