“It’s not about black and white or any other color it’s about all lives matter and everybody respecting that”, said Kerry Finnery, a Black Lives Matter supporter. “But it doesn’t get us away from talking about the key issues at hand, which are police violence and the world we want to live in, which is a world where police don’t kill people”. We’re not into trying to cause any type of violent confrontation.
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“I know that there are some who have criticized even the phrase “black lives matter”, as if the notion is that other lives don’t matter”, the President said.
“It’s my hope that this chapter can show that, yes, all lives matter, but especially at this particular time we need to declare that Black lives matter”, Johnson said. “That’s not to say that all lives don’t matter”, he said.
Speakers at the Black Lives Matter rally in Melbourne’s CBD outside the State Library of Victoria emphasised that “all lives matter” during the event on July 17, 2016.
Because of this, Game said the Black Lives Matter movement can be seen as hypocritical.
“What I care about is the folks in Zone 3, who will go through a different experience if Operation Whiplash continues as it does”, Smith said. “I think it’s voting and the streets”, Tiffany Smith said. We have to learn how to sit down and communicate with each other. What are you going to do to address institutional racism?
After three policemen lost their lives to a gunman in Louisiana yesterday, McKesson condemned the shooting and emphasized that #BlackLivesMatter calls for an end to violence on both sides. He claimed that the bequest of racial discrimination in the country has brought about hazardous suspicion between the police and minority communities such as the African-Americans. This protest today is actually joining up with the LGBT community.
“They certainly have ignited people and you see that”.
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Thomas also urged protesters to reduce their anger against the hundreds of police officers working the streets and the protests on a daily basis: “all law enforcement isn’t bad”.
