Black Lives Matter Leaders Condemn Dallas Shooting!

[JQPublic1]

Black Lives Matter leaders and its supporters are vehemently condemning the killings of Dallas police officers by a sniper at one of their marches.

“This is a tragedy–both for those who have been impacted by yesterday’s attack and for our democracy,” Black Lives Matter wrote in an official statement on their website. “There are some who would use these events to stifle a movement for change and quicken the demise of a vibrant discourse on the human rights of Black Americans. We should reject all of this.”


“Black activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it,” the post continued. “Yesterday’s attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman. To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. We continue our efforts to bring about a better world for all of us.”

Prominent New York Daily News columnist and Black Lives Matter supporter Shaun King wrote on Twitter that while he hates police brutality, he does not hate police.

“This violence is wrong on every level,” King wrote.

Black Lives Matter Leaders Condemn Dallas Shooting

 

[Damaged Eagle]

I tend to disbelieve you.

*****SMILE*****

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

And the KKK condemned the SC black church massacre, right?

 

[Meathead]

Black Lives Matter leaders and its supporters are vehemently condemning the killings of Dallas police officers by a sniper at one of their marches.

“This is a tragedy–both for those who have been impacted by yesterday’s attack and for our democracy,” Black Lives Matter wrote in an official statement on their website. “There are some who would use these events to stifle a movement for change and quicken the demise of a vibrant discourse on the human rights of Black Americans. We should reject all of this.”


“Black activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it,” the post continued. “Yesterday’s attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman. To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. We continue our efforts to bring about a better world for all of us.”

Prominent New York Daily News columnist and Black Lives Matter supporter Shaun King wrote on Twitter that while he hates police brutality, he does not hate police.

“This violence is wrong on every level,” King wrote.

Black Lives Matter Leaders Condemn Dallas Shooting

Shaun King is no leader of BLM. Hell, he isn't even black, just a male version of Rachel Dolezal. Those people make me sick thinking that they can be spokespeople for blacks just because they've achieved a modicum of literacy.

 

[waltky]

Leaders not gonna be intimidated by violent protests...

Minnesota, Louisiana leaders say they will not tolerate violent protests
Sun Jul 10, 2016 - Minnesota and Louisiana officials warned on Sunday they would not tolerate violence during further protests over the fatal police shootings of two black men after some demonstrators pelted police with debris in St. Paul and scuffled with officers in Baton Rouge.

The Minnesota State Patrol said more than 200 protesters shut down Interstate 94 in St. Paul for hours on Saturday night to protest last week's killing of Philando Castile, 32, in a St. Paul suburb. Officers were hit with rocks, bottles, concrete, construction materials and fireworks, police said. The city's mayor and a protest leader both decried the violence, which injured 21 officers and led to 102 arrests. St. Paul police said one officer suffered a broken vertebrae when a concrete block was dropped on his head during the protest on the interstate. "We will not tolerate the kind of shameless violence we saw throughout the course of the night," St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman told a news conference. "This doesn't honor anyone's memory."

The call for demonstrators to remain peaceful came as officials grappled with a wave of demonstrations against police use of force that has swept the country in the past week. At a spontaneous march in Dallas on Thursday, a U.S. military veteran shot and killed five police officers, sending a chill through law enforcement as well as those involved in the mostly peaceful demonstrations. The protests follow the shooting of Castile as well as Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Police arrested 102 people in Baton Rouge on Saturday night and Sunday morning, mostly for misdemeanors for not leaving a major thoroughfare known as Airline Highway. Those arrested included DeRay Mckesson, an activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate, officials said.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said he was proud of how the police had handled the protests so far, saying law enforcement had responded in a "moderate" manner. He also said the vast majority of protesters had acted lawfully and nonviolently. Edwards said, however: “It is not ... appropriate to allow them to simply block a major thoroughfare like Airline Highway." Protesters from Louisiana or out of state will not be allowed "to incite hate and violence, to engage in unlawful activities," Edwards told a news conference. "Now I want to be very clear. That will not be tolerated."

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Dallas sniper plotted bigger assault, taunted officers: police chief
Sun Jul 10, 2016 - The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers was plotting a larger assault, authorities said on Sunday, disclosing how he also taunted negotiators and wrote on a wall in his own blood before being killed.

Micah X. Johnson improvised instead and used "shoot-and-move" tactics to gun down the officers during a demonstration on Thursday evening, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told CNN. It was the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Brown said a search of Johnson's home showed the gunman had practiced using explosives, and that other evidence suggested he wanted to use them against law enforcement. "We're convinced that this suspect had other plans," he said, adding that last week's fatal police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana led the 25-year-old Texas shooter to "fast-track" his attack plans.

Johnson, a black veteran who served in Afghanistan, took advantage of a spontaneous march that began toward the end of the protest over those killings. Moving ahead of the rally in a black Tahoe SUV, he stopped when he saw a chance to use "high ground" to target police, Brown said. Before being killed by a bomb-equipped robot, Johnson sang, laughed at and taunted officers, according to Brown, telling them he wanted to "kill white people" in retribution for police killings of black people. "He seemed very much in control and very determined to hurt other officers," the police chief said.

SURPRISE ATTACK

Brown said police had been caught off guard when some protesters broke away from Thursday's demonstration, and his officers were exposed as they raced to block off intersections ahead of the marchers. Johnson's military training helped him to shoot and move rapidly, "triangulating" his fire with multiple rounds so that police at first feared they were facing several shooters. Brown defended the decision to use a robot to kill him, saying that "about a pound of C4" explosive was attached to it. He added Johnson scrawled the letters "RB" in his own blood on a wall before dying. "We're trying to figure out through looking at things in his home what those initials mean," the police chief said.

The U.S. Department of Defense and a lawyer who represented Johnson did not return requests for information on his military history or the status of his discharge. Several members of Johnson's former Army unit, the 420th Engineer Brigade, exchanged comments on Facebook. "Makes me sick to my stomach," wrote one, Bryan Bols. Speaking at a local hospital, wounded mother Shetamia Taylor sobbed as she thanked police who shielded her and her son as the bullets began to fly.

At the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in downtown Dallas, Roman Catholic parishioners gathered on Sunday for their weekly service and to remember the fallen officers. "I would like you to join me in asking: 'Who is my neighbor?'" the Rev. Eugene Azorji, who is black, told the congregation. "Those who put their lives on the line every day to bring a security and peace, they represent our neighbor." A candlelight vigil is due to be held at 8 p.m. on Monday in Dallas City Hall plaza.

PROTESTS AND ARRESTS

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

Yeah, I tend to listen to the constituents and watch their actions.

 

[BlueGin]

Apparently the other thread on this didn't go well for the faux BLM and their crocodile tears ... so a lib is trying again.