Black Lives Matter condemns Dallas shootings, plans protests
“That happened before Black Lives Matter, before the Civil Rights era in the ’50s and ’60s”.
“Black Lives Matter was exactly who they are then as who they are today”.
“This movement needs to be marginalized”, Clarke told the “Kelly File” host.
Kelly pushed back against Clarke’s comments, pointing out that Micah Xavier Johnson, the suspected Dallas gunman who killed five police officers, was not necessarily affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Giuliani goes on and on about how everything bad that happens to the black community is their own fault, decides bringing up Amadou Diallo in a positive manner is somehow a good idea (it is not), and blatantly lies about Black Lives Matter promoting the murder of police officers. People are angry over police violence against blacks and need an outlet to demonstrate peacefully, he said. We are hurting. We are exhausted. “We continue our efforts to bring about a better world for all of us”, the group said in a statement.
Black Lives Matter was founded by three women who popularized the slogan during protests over the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen who was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida.
“If the whole country seemed hell-bent on discrediting your organization and movement because we dare to demand that Black Lives Matter, and the media perpetuates the hate group rhetoric, would you or would you not be a little on edge?”
The movement has grown as fatal shootings of blacks by police officers are increasingly recorded and shared on social media, sometimes as confrontations are still unfolding.
State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown (D-190), chairwoman of the Philadelphia Legislative Black Caucus, said she viewed the graphic picture of Sterling’s body laying on the ground on the front page of the New York Daily News and on television newscasts, and thought it was inappropriate.
Police have since been targeted in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri.
Woods said the repeated shootings by police are pushing some unstable people over the edge.
All week, she’s seen Facebook videos of police showing restraint when dealing with armed, aggressive white men – restraint she didn’t see in the police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
A Texas organizer of Black Lives Matter, Ashton P. Woods, said criticism of the group was unfair.
“That does something to the human psyche”.
“How would you know to post up there?” he said.
“We can’t really focus on whether people are going to cast us as a hate group when we are working to dismantle hate”, Woods said.