White House spokesman Josh Earnest said there would be law enforcement officers in the room who are deeply troubled by Black Lives Matter activists. Their guest, Rob George, pointed out an important concept: BLM’s point is that when a black person has a police encounter, that person must always be anxious about being treated poorly-to the point of worrying about being killed.
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An early supporter of the movement, stunned by the backlash the slogan was generating, said it might help people to understand these three words if, instead of adding a word in front, they added a word at the end – “too”.
Demonstrators were gathering at Red Barber Park tonight for a Black Lives Matter protest and planned to march to the Sanford Police Department on Goldsboro Boulevard, almost two miles. Not dividing people. The minute we start putting racial tags on things, we are becoming divisive and we’re getting close to racism.
In addressing the request to name Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization, the White House acknowledged that “This is a hard time for our nation and this is a charged debate that stirs deep emotion”.
Also on the list were Mica Grimm, with Black Lives Matter Minnesota, and DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a charge of obstructing a highway. “What have you not heard me say?” “And I would never go to a breast cancer rally and yell out ‘colon cancer matters.’ And that’s what people are doing here”. I don’t understand why black men die in custody and they’re forgotten the next day.
“Everyone wants peace and justice, and the only way that can be achieved is if everyone stands for that together”, said Johnson, a Waynesboro High School senior.
“I think it’s good to bring awareness to police brutality”, Watson said.
As part of the protest, the group held a moment of silence for the police officers who were injured and killed during the incidents in Baton Rouge and Dallas.
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“It’s time to stop the violence time to come together its time to unify”, said Quisha Bankhead, the march organizer.
