“I always had admired Black Lives Matter, and kinda what they had done and the advocacy that they had done and I was surprised because I saw that Savannah didn’t have a chapter”, Johnson said. “Yesterday’s attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman”, organizers said in a statement on the Black Lives Matter website. These protesters are shining a spotlight on the fact that we live in a nation where police have killed at least 136 black people in 2016 alone (and it’s only July).
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“An ideal outcome for me right now would be for people to really question themselves and understand that they really have an impact on what’s happening”, said Tamir.
“God commands us, ‘Thou shalt not kill, ‘ yet it still happens”, he said.
“We want our police to be safe there are definitely steps that we can do not just within the police force and within our communities”, Caleb Roeher said. “The responses that we’ve had, it’s been nothing but positive – thanking us for being out here, thanking them for understanding, supporting us, letting us know that we do matter”.
Vioncey Dixon, whose sister, E’monnie, was shot to death in York earlier this year, urged the black community to demonstrate the meaning of Black Lives Matter. Or if I’m a public citizen, I’m not looking a Black Lives Matter as a radical.
“Certainly, in certain instances they are”, Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly when he asked whether the group has been “a fuse-lighter in the assassinations of these police officers”.
Members of both groups say they plan to work together on an issue that affects the entire country.
Nick said that his “community brought me down here today and the lack of representation for my community brought me down here today”.
He said: “The only way to solve this problem is to disarm the police in the country”. We are just crying for help and we are losing lives by the hour’.
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During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Mckesson condemned the killing of police officers in Baton Rouge. We want to feel safe.
