Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are condemning the slayings of police in Dallas during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Shaun King is a blogger who rose to prominence following the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He says on Twitter that he hates police brutality but doesn’t hate police. He says: “This violence is wrong on every level.”
Center for Media Justice director Malkia Cyril says her “heart hurts for the dead.”
Cyril and King also defended the Black Lives Matter movement.
She writes that it “advocates dignity, justice and freedom, not the murder of cops.” King says anyone blaming Black Lives Matter “is sick.” He says protesters were peaceful and the shootings “terrorized them too.”
(AP)
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Black lives matter even to the African American ppl. 1 black person shot they shoot additional 5 or whatever the numbers are up to
Perhaps the “Black lives matter” advocated (including and especially President Obama) should consider what happened before they engage racist incendiary incitement. Fortunately for them, American law protects their free speech (in Israel they could be prosecuted for “incitement”).
All. Lives. Matter.
Until BLM understands this, they are irrelevant and hypocritical.
It’s always sad when innocent people get killed but when one resists arrest and the police has to defend himself these tragedies happen