White Lives Matter Protest Descends On NAACP Headquarters With Rifles, Confederate Flags

“If they’re going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people”, he said, “they also need to hold their people accountable”.

White Lives Matter protesters staged a rally outside the NAACP’s Houston headquarters on Sunday, igniting controversy and counter-protests in the city. Reed said that the Black Lives Matter organization and their members shoot people based on the color of their skin, but that White Lives Matter do not do that. Eventually, police barricaded the protesters, which drew large crowds.

According to the report, police began to clear the crowed of White Lives Matters supporters at about 3:30 p.m.

Black Lives Matter is ridiculed quite often by those who believe the group is only concerned about blacks.

DiCiccio said the costs of monitoring the protests came from the Phoenix Police Department. Once the opposing group dispersed, a second group of Black and white residents gathered in a nearby church parking lot to pray. The NAACP was formed in reaction to racist mob violence and the rise of white supremacist groups like the Klu Klux Klan at a time when lynchings and armed mob killings were commonplace in the U.S.

Members of the New Black Panther Party frequently carry out armed protests, as Breitbart Texas has reported in the past. “While it is always tempting to go and challenge those White people who come out and attack our movement, it is more important that we teach Black people that * a class=”_58cn” href=”https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?source=feed_text&story_id=1786028051677292″ data-ft=”{“tn”:”*N”,”type”:104}” *‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬.

Green says he will contact the Justice Department to make sure they are aware of the protest.

“It is not a welcome mat for engagement to brandish a Confederate flag and bring an assault weapon to the NAACP”, Brooks said in a phone interview.

“The Confederate flag throws me off”, Quintana Richardson told the Houston Chronicle. “Now we’re screaming Black Lives Matter, but we can’t seem to get the NAACP to work with us”.

A video posted to Instagram shows at least one protester standing next to Reed waving a Confederate flag while wearing a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt bearing what appears to be a white nationalist symbol on the back.