The mayor of a MA city has denied a request from police officers that a Black Lives Manner banner be removed from City Hall and replaced with a new one.
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Following the deaths of unarmed civilians Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, who were shot by police officers earlier this month, the rapper remained silent on the Black Live Matter movement – a silence which has been broadly criticized by the hip-hop community.
Initially there was a Black Lives Matter protest scheduled, but the police chief made a decision to see what would happen if they had a cookout instead where they invited the protesters.
“Black Lives Matter have created a divide because they are saying: ‘Black lives matter more, pick a side, which side are you on?’… they’re creating hostility and as a result, in Baton Rouge, cops are being gunned down”, said Hopkins to RT’s Neil Harvey. However, it is clear that fringe elements of that movement, and other protest movements, are provoked to indiscriminate violence against police officers in their name.
When the banner, which features the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, a picture of the Prospect Hill monument, the city seal, and its sponsors, the City of Somerville and the Somerville Police Department, was placed over the main entrance to City Hall last summer, Curtatone called it a statement.
The Oakland Police Department heard about the idea and is working to put together a similar cookout here, but two days ago we asked a Black Lives Matter protester in Oakland whether she’d be interested in going.
“Why not hang a banner that reads ‘We All Matter?'” DeNapoli told ABC News.
“Peaceful protest to end violence and injustice stands at the core of our nation’s values and our democracy and we will continue our peaceful protest via the banner”. She’ll stay out of prison while she works her way through the appeals process and abides by Milich’s rule not to wear items that make a political statement in his court. In the eyes of the law, they said he’s innocent.
And his opinion on BLM?
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“I just get upset, and what I was really trying to say there was, like, yo, I just, I hate when the bandwagon stuff start”, he said of Black Lives Matter.
