Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives, responded to the Dallas shooting by saying that a few perpetrators of evil do not represent nor control our nation.
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Seeing the protester grabbed by police officers, others at the protest began to chant, “No justice, no peace!”
WASHINGTON (AP) Kaylin Luces found herself in a hard position last week: In one moment, she was texting her sister, a police officer, telling her, “Be careful out there”.
That’s what I see as the difference between Black Lives Matter and previous civil rights movements.
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor wants people to stop focusing their anger on those using the phrase “all lives matter” and instead work together to tackle violence.
When a St. Louis Police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, it was noticed that the officer was white.
Again within days, a sniper killed police at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest rally in downtown Dallas.
Trump also called the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile “very, very sad”.
“I believe people are more angry now than they were on the bridge because of how the meeting went last night”, Daja Scurlock said. And if some wicked metal riffs can help us shed those lines that divide us for just a little while, that’s certainly not a bad thing.
Oluchi Omeoga of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis saw their actions as those of allies to the cause.
“They are dividing American”, Trump continued, pointing out their negative rhetoric towards the police. Just because a person runs a 5K to raise awareness for breast cancer doesn’t mean that person feels we shouldn’t be aware of other types of cancers – it’s about tackling issues as we have the opportunity to address them.
Stalien says that the media sensationalizes the race war and that they are all looking at the wrong picture.
Niamke Ledbetter, of Oak Cliff, Texas, holds a sign at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Sunday. “You got the “Black Lives Matter” and stuff”.
In the essay, entitled “Black AND Blue Lives Matter, To Everyone”, Nutter said that BLM was starting to make people have hard but important conversations about racial biases and injustices in America. “And it pits two equally important interests against each other that weren’t against each other”. The objective is not to say that people of color are valued over anyone else, but rather that they are valued the same as anyone else.
People like former IL congressmen Joe Walsh wrongly frame last week’s events in Dallas as a “war”.
“My solution to the tension between the police and the people which I recognize as my own inner tension is to seek unity, not find division”, he wrote, adding that community education and police reforms are also needed. Police Officers need law abiding citizens to “respect and appreciate” them and to better understand the challenges and dangers in 21st century policing. There is not one person on the current Editorial Board for Scroll who knows what it’s like to be black in America. “This is where we’re stuck”.
“As long as [an officer is] out there always doing the right thing, [officers] shouldn’t have to worry if someone is out there videotaping or recording [them, ]” Tabor said. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
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“Now we’re going to turn around and plant that seed and let it bloom!”
