vincentML
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Lets face facts, police involved shootings are up across the board, hell, reports of police brutality are on the rise, against all skin colors.
Of course, that is not important as the current spin out of the BLM is that only African American males matter, the other races dont fucking count.
A stand, that by the very definition of racism, is racist.
What that tells me is that white people are too fucking lazy or too invested in the law and order status quo to get off their fat corn-dog asses, move away from the TV screen, and get themselves out to protests. For the most part, as has been abundantly clear on these threads, white folks are more likely to sympathize and defend Blue violence than to take up the issue in any meaningful way. Look at what you're saying:
a movement begun by three black ladies over social media has put lazy-ass white people to shame.
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When the idea that any unarmed individual shot and killed by police is considered the issue and not just those of one color, I may actually get a bit more sympathetic.
Hell, when an white unarmed Vet was killed by cops locally a couple of years ago, it didnt rate national coverage.
Hey, nobody stopping your lazy ass from starting up a protest unless you're afraid them good ol boys down in the Hollow are goona shoot you dead. But, that's the risk in social activism isn't it?
Where were you when in 2014 . . .
Black Lives Matter demonstrated against the deaths of numerous African Americans by police actions, including those of Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Antonio Martin, and Jerame Reid, and Eric Garner among others.
Where were you when
In August, during Labor Day weekend, Black Lives Matter organized a "Freedom Ride", that brought more than 500 African-Americans from across the United States into Ferguson, Missouri, to support the work being done on the ground by local organizations.[76][77] The movement continued to be involved in the Ferguson unrest, following the death of Michael Brown.[78] Also in August, Los Angeles Police Department officers shot and killed Ezell Ford. Following the shooting, BLM protested his death in Los Angeles into 2015.[79]
Were you too busy when . . .
In November, a New York City Police Department officer shot and killed, Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old African-American man. Gurley's death was later protested by Black Lives Matter in New York City.[80] In Oakland, California, fourteen Black Lives Matter activists were arrested after they stopped a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train for more than an hour on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. The protest, led by Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, was organized in response to the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the death of Mike Brown.[81][82]
Also in November, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer.
In December, 2,000–3,000 people gathered at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police.[85] At least twenty members of a protest that had been using the slogan were arrested.[86] In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, BLM protested the police shooting of Dontre Hamilton, who died in April.[87] Black Lives Matter protested the shooting of John Crawford III.[88] The shooting of Renisha McBride was protested by Black Lives Matter.[89]
Also in December, in response to the decision by the grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson on any charges related to the death of Michael Brown, a protest march was held in Berkeley, California. Later, in 2015, protesters and journalists who participated in that rally filed a lawsuit alleging "unconstitutional police attacks" on attendees.[90]
In 2015, Black Lives Matter demonstrated against the deaths of numerous African Americans by police actions, including those of Charley Leundeu Keunang, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Meagan Hockaday, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, The Charleston Nine, Jonathan Sanders, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, Jeremy McDole, Corey Jones, and Jamar Clark, among others.
In March, BLM protested at Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, demanding reforms within the Chicago Police Department.[91] Charley Leundeu Keunang, a 43-year-old Cameroonian national, was fatally shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The LAPD arrested fourteen following BLM demonstrations.[92]
In April, Black Lives Matter across the United States protested over the death of Freddie Gray which included the 2015 Baltimore protests.[93][94] After the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, Black Lives Matter protested Scott's death and called for citizen oversight of police.[95]
In May, a protest by BLM in San Francisco was part of a nationwide protest, Say Her Name, decrying the police killing of black women and girls, which included the deaths of Meagan Hockaday, Aiyana Jones, Rekia Boyd, and others.[96] In Cleveland, Ohio, after an officer was acquitted at trial in the shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, BLM protested.[97] In Madison, Wisconsin, BLM protested after the officer was not charged in the shooting of Tony Robinson.[98]
Black Lives Matter protest against St. Paul police brutality at Metro Green Line
In June, after Dylann Roof's shooting in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, BLM issued a statement and condemned the shooting as an act of terror.[99] BLM across the country marched, protested and held vigil for several days after the shooting.[100][101] BLM was part of a march for peace on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in South Carolina.[102] After the Charleston shooting, a number of memorials to the Confederate States of America were graffitied with "Black Lives Matter" or otherwise vandalized.[103][104] Around 800 people protested in McKinney, Texas after a video was released showing an officer pinning a girl—at a pool party in McKinney, Texas—to the ground with his knees.[105]
In July, BLM activists across the United States began protests over the death of Sandra Bland, an African-American woman, who was allegedly found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas.[106][107] In Cincinnati, Ohio, BLM rallied and protested the death of Samuel DuBose after he was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer.[108] In Newark, New Jersey, over a thousand BLM activists marched against police brutality, racial injustice, and economic inequality.[109] Also in July, BLM protested the death of Jonathan Sanders who died while being arrested by police in Mississippi.[110][111]
Oh, there is so much more, but you get my point, don't you? Get out from behind your PC and do something productive instead of just bitching about what black people are doing. So easy to dismiss what other people are doing in the name of Equality, innit? So easy to call them thugs and denigrate their efforts and call them racists. What a joke, jlf!
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