There are some times that I know what I say will make people
mad. But if something needs to be said (as in, it’s the truth but most people
are too afraid to say it), I’ll say it regardless of the feelings it may hurt.
There are other times that I think something will not
illicit strong reactions, but I am proven wrong.
The latter was the case when I pointed out the hypocrisy of
the Black Lives Matter movement. One of the three police officers murdered in
Baton Rouge was black. Do black lives really matter if black people are being
killed in protest of blacks being killed?
Indeed, “Black Lives Matter” is a misnomer. These
individuals for the most part are inconsistent. There is no mention of the
common problem of blacks killing blacks in the inner city. The year-and-a-half
following Trayvon Martin’s death saw over 11,000 blacks killed by other blacks.
Ninety-three percent of blacks murdered are killed by other blacks.
Nor does Black Lives Matter mention a word about the biggest
killer of blacks: abortion. Margaret Sanger used abortion to strategically
target blacks, and her work continues. Blacks comprise 14% of the population,
but one-third of abortions. In New York, there are more black babies aborted
each year than there are born. In an average year, well over 300,000 black
lives are taken by abortion. Not a word from Black Lives Matter. In fact, many
of them are Progressives and whole-heartedly support abortion.
The hypocrisy is so staggering, I can’t take the movement
seriously. It seems the only black lives that really matter to Black Lives
Matter are criminals. This is why the name “Black Lives Matter” is so
misleading. They protest the one problem that doesn’t exist and ignore the ones
that do.
These are the sentiments I expressed, and friends came out
of the woodwork to challenge me, whether directly confronting me, talking to me
privately, or passive-aggressively approving of others chastising me. So it
became painfully obvious that “hateful” me needed to lay out my case in-depth.
It is claimed that not all of Black Lives Matter is violent.
I would agree, though a sizeable minority is. Comparisons are made about a
Christian that becomes violent in the name of Christianity or a pro-life person
that goes rogue and kills an abortionist. However, unlike these examples,
violence in the Black Lives Matter movement is not isolated. It’s a regular
event. Days-long riots. Shooting police. And even more people that don’t
directly become violent call
for violence.
Blacks Lives Matter is not only illegitimate for these
reasons, but most important, it is built on a foundation of lies. The entire
basis is wrong. There is no systematic discrimination in law enforcement. This
is not to say that there are no racist police officers, but those are anomalies,
not the rule. This poor foundation breeds mistrust of law enforcement and leads
to violent outbursts.
Apparently, it is wrong to poke fun at the Black Lives
Matter movement. But I don’t have to make fun of Black Lives Matter. This bastard
movement is already a joke. It writes its own punchlines. I stand back in awe
of the fact that riots start without anyone knowing the evidence of a case.
These fools are not interested in justice at all, as we will see.
So let us take a look at the important players in BLM, as
well as the deaths over which it has gone berserk.
Alicia Garza
Garza is one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter
movement. She takes inspiration from Assata Shakur – a Marxist revolutionary,
Black Panther, and cop-killer. She also admires Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and
Ella Baker, who between the three of them have Marxist, Communist Party USA,
and lesbian feminist identities.
She is a lesbian Marxist who is married to a transgender
individual. She desires for the Black Lives Matter movement to fight for the
rights specifically of LGBT blacks.
Garza also takes offense to the phrase, “All lives matter.”
This is what you are supporting, Christians.
Patrisse Cullors
Another founder of BLM, Cullors’ words display her identity:
“I think there is the conversation
that happens on social media from law enforcement in many places that some
people would say are just lies, they are putting out information on the one
hand and on the other hand propaganda.”
From the top down, Black Lives Matter breeds mistrust of
police.
Opal Tometi
Tometi is the other co-founder. She is a former volunteer
for the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization that perpetually sues
Christians or sues cities to remove any Christian décor, such as the Ten
Commandments or nativity scenes.
Together, these three women were named to Fortune magazine’s 50 Most Influential
World Leaders.
Then we have other activists involved in the movement. Shaun
King, who is obviously biracial, covered
up the race of his father until last year. Deray McKesson is the bold hashtag activist.
Johnetta Elzie has called the Republican National Convention a “Klan meeting”.
However, she probably doesn’t have much time for activism with her 181,000
tweets.
So we’ve covered the lunacy of the Black Lives Matter
founders and important players. To show that the foundation of the movement is
wrong, let’s examine the deaths of black men protested by BLM.
Trayvon Martin
The Black Lives Matter movement began with the tragic death
of a teenager. I say tragic because all of these deaths are tragic. There are
young black men being raised suspicious of law enforcement and whites, so by
the time they are physically matured, they have this animosity engrained in
their minds. This is not to say that they are guiltless in their actions; they
certainly are to blame. But equally to blame is the urban culture in which they
were raised. This is where the problems actually lie, and this is where society
must start if we are to end these deaths – not with police or whites.
Trayvon Martin was portrayed by the media as the 14 year-old
picture that was widely circulated. In reality, he was a drug-using burglar,
not an innocent child. George Zimmerman took notice and kept an eye on him.
This is where Zimmerman went wrong. Rather than rely on
police, he tried to be the hero himself. No one knows what happened the night
he killed Trayvon Martin. If someone says they do, they’re lying. There were no
credible witnesses to the death. And both Martin and Zimmerman had character
flaws.
Zimmerman was found not guilty not because we knew he was
innocent, but because there was not enough evidence to convict him. That’s the
way our justice system works. The United States would be a terrible place if we
decided to convict someone of murder with little evidence simply because a
large group of people want him to be convicted.
But Black Lives Matter isn’t interested in justice. They
never have been.
Riots broke out across the country. Buildings were looted
and set ablaze. “Kill Zimmerman” was written on walls. Traffic was blocked.
American flags were burned. A
grandmother was attacked while trying to take a seven year-old to the
hospital.
When a mistrust of police is hammered into the heads of
young blacks, from the top down – Garza, Cullors, Tometi, Jesse Jackson, Al
Sharpton, etc. – they decide to take the law into their own hands when they
feel justice was not served. But anyone that knows the law (and doesn’t ignore
it) can see that everything was done right.
Was George Zimmerman guilty? We can’t say for sure. Judging
from his actions since the death of Martin (such as auctioning
the gun he used to kill Martin for $138,900), I think he shares some guilt.
Perhaps it was manslaughter. There’s a chance it was murder, or that it was
self-defense. We don’t know for sure.
The ridiculous part of the Trayvon Martin case was that the
movement that spawned from it has nothing to do with that particular case.
George Zimmerman is half white and half Hispanic. Yet somehow, whites bore the
brunt of the blame game. Black Lives Matter is focused on ending the perceived
police bias and brutality. But George Zimmerman was not a police officer. He
was a community watch organizer. He had no legal authority.
So essentially, a movement pointing out the perceived
wrongdoing of law enforcement and whites began when a half-white civilian
killed a black teenager.
Bernard Bailey
It is only fair to include the episodes of misconduct by
police. As we will see in the other cases, this is an anomaly. In this case,
police chief Richard Combs and Bailey got into a scuffle over a traffic ticket.
In the process, Combs shot Bailey three times, resulting in his death.
There is nothing that points to racism, though
unsurprisingly Black Lives Matter has used this as ammunition. Combs was
initially charged with murder, but the charge was dropped. He was instead
convicted of misconduct. He was defending himself, but used excessive force in
the process.
Walter Scott
Walter Scott, like most people on this list, was a criminal.
He had been convicted of a felony and had assaulted a police officer. Right
before he was shot, he had stolen a Taser from the officer that killed him. He
was not totally clean.
However, Officer Michael Slager needlessly shot Scott as he
ran away. This was not done in defense of his life or anyone else’s life.
Hence, Slager was charged with murder. His case is ongoing.
I mention these events to show that there are some bad
police officers, and not every death is entirely the criminal’s fault. Once
again, though, there is no proof that this was a racially-motivated killing. At
best, we can prove that on rare occasion there have been officers who have
wrongfully killed a civilian. At best, we can say “All lives matter” and tell
the police to be more careful. Yet, Black Lives Matter uses stories such as
this to make their baseless case:
“Walter’s death was motivated by
racial discrimination. You’ve got to hate somebody to shoot them in the back.”
–Pastor George Hamilton
Pastor Hamilton told the crowd at the memorial service that
the killing was motivated by “overt racism”. As we will see soon, Black Lives
Matter’s reaction are painfully predictable. If a white man kills a black man,
it is because the white man is racist. End of story.
Ezell Ford
Technically, Ezell Ford was unarmed when he was shot to
death by Los Angeles police. This is a common ploy used by Black Lives Matter.
“Well he was unarmed! He couldn’t have been a threat! This
was blatant racism!”
Several black men have been killed when they were “unarmed”.
What is glossed over is the fact that Ford was attempting to grab an officer’s
gun from his holster. So let’s see: if the officers don’t shoot Ford, he ends
up grabbing the gun and killing the officer he took it from, and possibly
others. This is an open and shut case of self-defense. The police were
protecting themselves. Period. Lethal force is justified when the thug attempts
lethal force.
But, naturally, Black Lives Matter supporters said
differently. One sign at a memorial said the LAPD was carrying out “executions”
against blacks. Ford’s parents filed multiple lawsuits, claiming that the
officers used excessive force because of “Ford’s status as an African American
or his black skin tone.”
A criminal is killed by police while trying to kill police,
and that is a racially motivated execution?
This is why I can’t take Black Lives Matter seriously. No,
in this case there wasn’t much violence after this killing. But outright lies
were spread about the case, which led to, again, further mistrust of police.
The LAPD did everything right, and were demonized for it.
Dontre Hamilton
Initially, the news that Hamilton was shot 14 times would
make the average person think that excessive force was used. And since most
people fail to investigate any further, many people still hold this belief.
However, there is a different story:
“Manney described arriving on the
scene, where he found Hamilton lying on the ground, with his eyes open and a
leg shaking. Manney said Hamilton stood up, and as Manney patted him down he
felt a hard cylindrical object in Hamilton's waist band and another hard object
in Hamilton's pocket.
According to Manney, Hamilton
trapped his arms. When he freed himself, Manney said, Hamilton looked at him
with a ‘1000-yard stare.’
The two men fought, and Manney said
he used his baton to strike Hamilton, but Hamilton trapped the baton with his
arm, grabbed it and then struck the officer. Manney said he attempted to push
Hamilton away to create distance. Manney said he thought Hamilton was growing stronger,
reaching the point of ‘super human strength.’
When Manney finally got his
firearm, he said, he walked backward. Hamilton continued to advance.
Manney said he gripped his pistol
with two hands and fired, striking Hamilton in the chest. Hamilton kept coming
forward.
Manney continued to fire until
Hamilton fell to the pavement; he recalled it was as if he was ‘shooting a BB
gun.’”
–Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal
Sentinal
Officers are trained to fire to “stop the threat”. Fourteen
shots can be fired in three seconds. Hamilton is schizophrenic and an obvious
threat, as he was already assaulting Manney. He was continuing to advance
against a backing up Manney. The final report rightfully supported Manney’s
self-defense.
Manney was physically injured from Hamilton’s attack and was
“distraught” after the shooting.
But Hamilton’s family said that justice wasn’t served, that
Manney should have been indicted for the death. Hillary Clinton had something
to add as well during a debate:
“We know of the tragic, terrible
event that led to the death of Dontre Hamilton right here in Milwaukee, a young
man, unarmed, who should still be with us. His family certainly believes that,
and so do I. So we have work to do.”
She, as is the case with BLM sympathizers, neglected to
mention that Hamilton had armed himself with a police officer’s weapon.
Once again, a police officer doing his job was crucified,
and a thug was canonized.
Rumain Brisbon
Brisbon was playing music loud enough to warrant a call to
the police. Police responded, and Brisbon went to grab something out of the
back of his SUV. The officer told him to put his hands up, but Brisbon instead
stuffed his hands in his waistband. The officer, unsure of what was in Brisbon’s
waistband, drew his weapon. Brisbon ran while verbally challenging the officer.
Once the officer caught up, he told Brisbon to get on the ground. Brisbon put
his hand in his left pocket, and the officer grabbed his hand, unsure of what
was in his pocket. Eventually, Rumain Brisbon broke free, and the officer shot
him, believing he had a gun in his pocket. He didn’t, but the
officer had no way to know that.
Naturally, the officer was not charged with a crime. But
Black Lives Matter cried racism.
Attorney Marci Kratter offered her view:
“It was a senseless tragedy. He was
unarmed and not a threat to anyone. We intend to pursue this to the full extent
of the law.”
Community leader Karl Gentles:
“There has to be some additional
communication, dialogue, training, about how black males are perceived. Because,
as you see from other incidents, black males are feared with unfound reason in
many cases, and there is an explicit overreaction in dealing with
African-American males that leads to these contentious situations.”
Ann Hart, chairwoman of the African American Police Advisory
for South Phoenix (yes, it’s actually a thing):
“It gives the impression that it's
open season for killing black men.”
Tamir Rice
This has to be the most tragic of all the deaths. Tamir Rice
was just twelve years old when he was killed.
Rice was, frankly, a thug in training. Someone at twelve
years old is affected by the views of the culture he was raised in, as well as
his family.
No twelve year-old should be walking around a park pointing
a fake gun that looked like a real gun at people. It makes one wonder what is
going on in his home life.
Rice had also removed the orange sticker that specifically
is made to tell people the gun is not operational. So for all the people in the
park knew, their lives were actually in danger.
The police felt the same way. The police told him to put his
hands up. Instead, Rice pulled the gun out of his waistband. Officer Timothy
Loehmann then shot and killed Rice.
Again, it’s so tragic that a boy of 12 years died. But it
was not the fault of the officers. They followed regulations. Rice’s teaching
by society and family led to his death. The problem is not police. It’s the
black leaders and parents (and the Black Lives Matter movement) that teach
children not to trust or obey law enforcement. (This is not a
blanket statement. It would be a lie to say all blacks are taught lawlessness.
Not even close to true. But there is a problem in the inner city, as can be
seen by the disproportionate crime, murder, and resisting arrest rates. This is
where the solution needs to be.)
Chris Kyle, the “American Sniper”, was faced with a similar
situation during a battle. He saw a child walking towards U.S. troops with an
explosive. He desperately didn’t want to shoot the little boy. But it was
apparent that the boy posed a serious threat to the tank the boy was headed
towards. So Kyle killed the boy in defense of others. He refused to accept
congratulations for the shot. Though it was tragic, by all accounts the boy
seemed like a threat. So he did what he had to do. So did Timothy Loehmann.
Freddie Gray
Freddie Gray died in the custody of Baltimore police. What
is not certain is how he received the injuries that led to his death.
One thing is certain about Gray’s death: it brought the
corruption of the Baltimore and Maryland governments into light. Detectives
learned that Gray had a history of “crash-for-cash” schemes – purposefully injuring
himself in the setting of law enforcement to collect cash from settlements –
but were advised not to pursue the information by state prosecutor Marilyn J.
Mosby. Likewise, when riots were poised to occur, Baltimore mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake ordered police to give “space to destroy”, giving rioters a
license to commit crime without fear of arrest.
Both these women are black. There might have been racial
motivations that took place in this case, but it wasn’t the white police
officers.
So Freddie Gray has a history of injuring himself to sue law
enforcement. Some reports state the same was happening in the back of the
police van Gray was transported in. He reportedly, according to the Washington
Post’s interview of another prisoner in the van, was “banging against walls”
and “intentionally trying to injure himself.”
Sounds like this thug was trying to have grounds for another
lawsuit and went overboard, essentially killing himself. Other accounts state
that he already had the injuries before the van ride. There’s no indication
this was racism. This wasn’t even negligence. This was a man who accidentally
killed himself trying to incriminate police.
But Black Lives Matter and the sympathetic politicians didn’t
see it that way. Mosby has sent six police officers, involved in the
transportation of Freddie Gray, to trial three times, and has never come close
to convicting any of them. She has not rested in her efforts to punish them for
a crime they didn’t commit. Mosby has had disbarment charges filed against her
over the witch hunt.
Protests were for the most part peaceful for a week, barring
one night in which five police vehicles were destroyed and officers were pelted
with rocks. But a couple days after the mayor’s comments, “We also gave those
who wished to destroy space to do that as well,” violence escalated.
After Gray’s funeral, around 100 rioters injured 15 police
officers; some had broken bones. Two police vehicles were destroyed, and a CVS
was looted and burned. A fire hose being used to stop the fire was also
punctured.
The carnage of the night was only beginning. By morning, there
had been 144 vehicle fires and 15 structure fires, and one bad injury from
arson. Many of those cleaning up their businesses were, ironically and sadly,
minorities. What better way to show that black lives matter than to destroy
black businesses?
President Obama and Jesse Jackson took an alarmingly
empathetic tone towards the rioters.
So, to review, a thug gets himself killed, BLM cries racism,
massive rioting harms black businesses. Once again, it is the lies of Black
Lives Matter about racism in the police force, and the reaction of black
leaders to Freddie Gray’s death, that led to these riots.
Eric Garner
Garner was well-known to NYPD. He already had eight domestic
incident reports against him. One involved him throwing his daughter and
newborn grandchild out of a car. Several more involved sexual touching.
Possession of particularly dangerous narcotics was also on
his list of crime, as well as driving with a suspended license. And participation
in organized crime. All these comprised over 30 arrests.
His go-to crime was the untaxed cigarette trade. This
involved selling single cigarettes under the table, which is illegal since
neither he nor the buyer can be taxed.
Don’t just take my word for it. In the infamous video of
Garner being placed in a chokehold, he admits it inadvertently:
“Because every time you see me, you
want to harass me, you want to stop me, say I’m selling cigarettes…I’m tired of
it. It stops today.”
It’s true, this was a minor arrest. But it still warrants an
arrest. Garner was also out on bail after being charged with illegally selling
cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false
impersonation.
The 6’3”, 350 pound Garner can be seen swatting away the
arms of the officer trying to handcuff him, saying, “Don't touch me!”
There was and is much talk about Garner being placed in a
chokehold. However, the claim that it was illegal is a lie. Between 2009 and
mid-2014, there were over 1100 chokehold allegations. It was an acceptable
takedown move since Garner was threatening and stronger. The officer’s intention
was to arrest, not kill; he could not have known about Garner’s poor health.
Regardless, Garner did not die at the scene. He died after suffering cardiac
arrest in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Officer Pantaleo, the one who administered the chokehold,
went before a grand jury of 23 people, nine of whom were not white. They
decided against pressing charges.
Eric Garner’s resisting arrest led to his death. This was
not the fault of the police department.
Naturally, Black Lives Matter thought differently. Riots
broke out across the country when Pantaleo was freed by the justice system.
Garner’s daughter, Erica, spoke about the Baltimore riots:
“They had enough. They don’t know
what else to do. They don’t have no jobs, they don’t have proper schooling. I
was driving through Baltimore earlier and I noticed how many abandoned
buildings is out there. It’s like there’s no hope. These kids have no hope. I’m
not condoning what they are doing but like they think – they seem like they
have no hope. Like, eventually this is going to happen to me, I’m going to be
killed by the cops so why not go out there and get my message across. Burning
down the city is not right but what other choice do we have. They scared.”
In other words, she knows they are in the wrong, yet she
justifies their wrongdoing. So much paranoia: “Eventually…I’m going to be
killed by the cops.” Yes, every single black person will be killed by police.
Riots broke out around the country over Garner’s death and
the death of Michael Brown.
Michael Brown
The Michael Brown case is extremely clear, yet it sparked
some of the most violent protests by Black Lives Matter. Darren Wilson pulled
up by Michael Brown and Brown’s friend, who were walking down the middle of the
street. The two thugs had just robbed a convenience store and assaulted the
clerk. Wilson didn’t know this; he approached them because they were blocking
traffic and taking a foolish risk by walking in the middle of the road.
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| Surveillance of Brown robbing the convenience store |
“Come on guys, get out of the street,” he said.
The two refused, so Wilson drove over by them. He attempted
to get out of the car, but Brown slammed his door. As Wilson attempted to get
out again, Brown rushed him, shoved him back in, and punched him in the face.
Wilson rightfully grabbed for his gun, but Brown also grabbed it, and it went
off. Further physical struggle led to Brown being shot. Brown and his friend
ran off as Wilson got out of the car and ordered them to freeze.
“Oh, what are you going to do about it? You're not gonna
shoot me,” Brown said.
Then Brown charged Wilson at full speed from 35 feet away.
Wilson began shooting, but Brown kept coming, to Wilson’s amazement. Finally
Brown dropped about three feet in front of Wilson. Wilson was then taken to the
hospital for injuries he received from Brown’s blows.
This is should not even be an argument. Brown was a criminal who tried
to kill a police officer.
But he has been made into one of Black Lives Matter’s main
martyrs. Their version of the story is that Wilson pulled up to harass the two
young men because they were black. Brown was shot with his hands up in
surrender.
But even
liberal media realized that Brown hardly had his hands up, and that Wilson
was justified in killing the thug.
“He was running for his life and just got shot and turned
around and didn't try to reach for anything. He put his hands in the air being
compliant and he still got shot down like a dog,” a friend said. The
investigation showed otherwise.
That didn’t matter, though. UC Berkeley students and others rioted,
vandalizing and looting buildings. A protestor that tried to stop the looting
was hit with a hammer. Three police officers were wounded when protestors
hurled concrete at them.
The brunt of the Black Lives Matter riots happened in
Ferguson, Missouri, the location of Brown’s death. The day after (August 10,
2014) saw vandalism of cars, looting of a dozen businesses, one arson, and
confrontations with police officers.
On the next day, rocks were thrown at police. Later on, protestors used Molotov Cocktails.
Yet the actions of the rioters were blamed on the “militarization”
of the police. In other words, the police riot gear to protect them from
Molotov Cocktails caused the rioters to escalate their criminal activity.
“They just couldn’t help themselves! The protective gear set
them off! They weren’t in control of their actions at all!”
In other words, it’s all the police’s fault.
Violence continued on and off for over a week. Then when
charges were not pressed against Wilson, more riots sprung up, as well as the
common tactic of blocking roads to events. Twenty-five more buildings were
looted or set on fire. In March of 2015, two police officers were shot outside
of the police station.
Darren Wilson ended up resigning, saying that the job was
unbearable due to the criticism he faced. It has been difficult for him to find
another job. Black Lives Matter took an innocent man and wrecked his life.
Michael Brown soaked up the lies Black Lives Matter spread –
there is racism in police departments and they can’t be trusted – and he died
as a result. If he would have simply cooperated, he would not have ended up
lying on the pavement in the middle of the road. Instead, he resisted arrest
and attacked a police officer. Michael Brown’s skin color didn’t kill him – his
actions did. If he would have been white, a white thug would have died that
night.
But try telling that to Black Lives Matter. They simply
assume racism because the police officer happened to be white and the criminal
happened to be black. They don’t want evidence. They don’t want justice. They
want their presuppositions confirmed, even if it takes blatant lies.
That’s why they’re a joke.
The problem here was not police brutality and systematic
racism. The problem was that a young man had grown up with a will to break the
law and absolutely no respect for police, even when they approach them for
their safety. The problem is the urban culture the young man grew up in, not
the police.
But Black Lives Matter will not recognize that. They took an
obvious case of self-defense and twisted it into racism. This is why I consider
them an illegitimate movement. Any movement that sacrifices an officer doing
his job on the altar of their agenda is criminal. “Well he was white, and he
killed a black man. It must be racially motivated.”
No movement like that deserves respect.
Laquan McDonald
I’ve watched this video. I’ve watched all of them. It does
not appear, though McDonald had a knife, that he was an imminent threat to
Jason Van Dyke, the officer that killed him. Even granting that, there’s really
no excuse for continuing to fire at McDonald after he was on the ground. A
first-degree murder charge is appropriate here.
Black Lives Matter assumed there would be no justice, or at
least didn’t care, and began protests anyway. There was no indication that Van
Dyke’s actions were motivated by racism. Such a claim might hold more weight if there weren't also whites and Hispanics dying in the same way. And Van Dyke was properly charged with
first-degree murder. What more do they want?
Attorney Dan Herbert had it right when he said Van Dyke
needed to be tried in the courtroom, “not in the streets or in the media,”
though he is Van Dyke’s defense attorney. He has an uphill battle.
Not much violence happened in Chicago; rather, immaturity
seemed to reign.
One young woman was screaming at a random police officer,
and he asked why she was so angry.
“Because you’re dumb! End of story,” she replied.
Another famous photo was captured when a young man stared
down a police officer nearly nose-to-nose. I would have figured, with all these
racist white cops, he would have killed the young man. But he showed remarkable
restraint, as have most police during protests and riots.
Philando Castile
Jeronimo Yanez did not follow proper procedure during the
traffic stop. (Naturally, I had to go to Fox News’ website to find this
information, since all the others focused on racism.) Yanez pulled Castile over
because he matched the description of a robbery suspect. It wasn’t racial
profiling. However, when officers believe there is a felon in the car, they are
supposed to order everyone out of the car before approaching. Yanez clearly did
not do so. When Castile said he had a weapon, he simultaneously reached for his
back pocket. I’m sure this panicked Yanez, who likely thought Castile was
reaching for the weapon. With other information absent as of now, it’s tough to
say whether Yanez was justified in shooting Castile. At the very least, his negligence
ended up putting Castile at risk, and for that he deserves some sort of charge
against him.
Alton Sterling
“They are telling us not to be violent, but they are being
violent against us,” one protestor said.
It’s true, police are violent towards them, if they are
threatening the officers’ lives.
Such was the case with Alton Sterling, who had a gun on him
and reached for it while on the ground. That makes the point blank shooting by
police justified. He might have done the same to them. It’s little details like
this that Black Lives Matter glosses over to help their case.
Reactions to Castile’s and Sterling’s deaths were drastic.
One Baton Rouge officer, where Sterling was killed, had several teeth knocked
out. But that was minor compared to other Black Lives Matter thugs.
On July 7, Dallas police were ambushed at the end of a
peaceful protest. Five were killed, seven others were wounded, along with two
civilians.
Ten days later, three officers were killed in Baton Rouge
and several others injured.
One was black.
One was black.
Yes, during a protest over the deaths of black men, a black
man was killed to teach police they shouldn’t kill black men.
Just yesterday (July 20), another officer was murdered in
Kansas City.
It seems like Black Lives Matter has declared open season
against police.
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| Montrell Jackson, murdered in Baton Rouge |
Now you may say that no leader was encouraging those
actions, and you’d be right. But if I am supposed to be held accountable for my
tweets that “hurt people”, bless their sensitive hearts, then Black Lives
Matter should be held accountable for their rhetoric.
Black Lives Matter tells people that justice is perverted.
The deck is stacked against blacks. All these innocent blacks are being killed
by police, and whites are getting away with it. Now if I’m already someone with
extreme and violent tendencies, I’m going to assess the situation as told by
Black Lives Matter, and say, “There is no way to get justice. The only way we
can even the playing field is by killing cops in return.” That’s the problem
with Black Lives Matter. Their lies encourage such desperate activity, even if
some don’t directly encourage it.
So you tell me that most of Black Lives Matter does not
commit violence. That’s true. You say most don’t advocate violence. That’s
debatable; at the very least there are a lot of people that refuse to condemn the
violence, believing that it is the way the movement will be heard. Martin
Luther King, Jr. is rolling in his grave.
That is not even the best argument against the illegitimate
movement. The problem is that mistrust of law enforcement is widespread because
Black Lives Matter is spreading those lies. Examine the cases I outlined. The
majority of the deaths were not the fault of law enforcement. The black men
killed in most of those cases were threatening the lives of police officers.
Even in the ones in which a police officer was in the wrong, there is no proof
that the death was racially motivated.
Yet Black Lives Matter has painted a picture of systematic
racism in police departments across the country. They’re teaching black
children in the inner city not to trust the very people placed in their city to
protect their lives. How many more black lives would be lost if the police just
packed up and left, which some BLM advocates have suggested?
There is no proof of systematic racism in any police department, and the vast
majority of police officers are not racist either. I don’t deny that there are
some, but it’s not a widespread problem.
But according to Black Lives Matter, it is. They are
demonizing police who are properly doing their job. Then they are taking
criminals such as Eric Garner and Michael Brown and turning them into martyrs.
These men are remembered as victims, when in reality the police would have been
victims had they not stopped the thugs.
This is the illegitimacy of Black Lives Matter. They ignore
the greatest threats to black lives, choosing instead to conjure up a problem
that is not there. Their lies are teaching young black men to disrespect police
due to perceived bias. Then when they commit crimes and try to kill a police
officer, which is completely justified in their minds because they see police
as racists who want to harm them, they are killed instead. This feeds more
lies.
Beyond country-wide violence, the strongest evidence against
Black Lives Matter is that its foundation is built on half-truths and outright
dishonesty. And it’s costing us. It’s costing us black lives. It’s costing us
police lives. It’s costing us businesses and tax dollars. And it’s creating a
racial divide that is pinned on whites and law enforcement.
I’ve been told that speaking this is causing the problem of
racial disparity. But a problem cannot be fixed without first diagnosing it.
Black Lives Matter, I’m looking at you.
