Divide between Black and Blue lives widens after shootings

Mckesson was recently arrested while protesting the killing of Alton Sterling, a black man, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“It hurt me when I saw what happened in Minnesota”.

T.J Duncan with Back the Blue says, “We’re Texans, that’s it. We ain’t colored, we ain’t got nothing”.

State and local lawmakers were also in attendance. Now, in the aftermath of a tragic first week of July, CNN asked several of them to reflect on what it’s like to be part of two communities in pain. The people who say “All lives matter” may be correct, but that is beside the point and diminishing the problem.

His group also wants criminal charges filed in the case of Officer James Burns, an Atlanta Police Officer who’s been fired for fatally shooting 22-year-old Caine Rogers last month in Midtown. But Pope and others argued it’s more important now than ever to encourage dialogue.

Both police agencies said they supported the demonstrators’ right to protest. “We look forward to the meeting with the mayor and the chief of police”.

“It tries to marginalize Black Lives Matter”, Washington said.

After watching videos of the violence last week, Cotton’s first thought was, “There’s so much anger out there”.

“Growing up as a kid in San Diego, I did not like the police”, Pendleton said.

Likewise, he added, the police shootings are not “reflective of the professional work that members of the law enforcement community conduct dutifully every day”. People need to know what police see on the street, he said, and police need to know what residents are feeling. “It’s just that they get more publicity and more media attention than other use of force issues by officers”. “All of these events speak to the lack of unity and trust in many of our communities and underscores the urgency in addressing that lack of trust”.

“Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina has enrolled grade-school students in a “Black Lives March and Rally” scheduled for March 17, 2016″, Robert Mihaly wrote in a column which appeared in The Daily Caller.

At a memorial service in Dallas for five officers shot dead during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, US President Obama, with a quivering lip, told the audience: “The deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, perhaps even widened”.