The day has come, the acquittal of George Zimmerman, for the shooting of Treyvon Martin in 2012.
We just want justice!
After a love letter I posted on Facebook called Our Lives Matter, Patrisse here turned it into the hashtag BlackLivesMatter
I think it's time we trend what's right! Maybe then they will hear us!
When I saw the dedication, passion and motivation of these two I couldn't help but to build a digital platform for BLM.#160;
Floyd tells police officers he is claustrophobic before being put behind police car.
After a call from a local corner store calls 911 on George Floyd to state he has purchased cigarettes with a counterfeit, Police arrive and immediately pull out gun after approaching the vehicle Floyd is in.
When Floyd fell to the ground, the officer was found kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes, once he lost consciousness Floyd was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Justice for George Floyd!
Black Lives Matter!
Stop police brutality!
Floyd said he could not breathe 20 times while that cop was kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes!
Why would a gun be brought out begore any danger was proven?!
There were 1126 people that police killed in 2020, about 50% of these cases involved a suspect who allegedly threaten someone with a gun.
All Lives Matter! Police have dangerous jobs and you should understand that they may have to resort to have to protect themselves!
The officers responsible have been sentenced. New York state lawmakers proposed that individual officers carry liability insurance.
Travis Campbell, a PhD student in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tracked BLM protests between 2014 and 2019. His main findings being a 15-20 percent reduction in lethal use of force by police. The data shows very clearly that where there were Black Lives Matter protests, killings of people by the police decreased.
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