Posted on 03/10/2015 11:43:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The phrase “Black Live Matter” has emerged as a movement.
A lawyer, Benjamin Crump the lawyer for the families of teens killed in police shootings responded to the Justice Department’s report surrounding the conditions which led to the death of Michael Brown. He stated with an interview on, Face the Nation that the Department of Justice cannot sanitize these shootings of unarmed colored people.
Representing the families of Trayvon Martin, Michel Brown and Tamir Rice; Crump does not agree with the report not bringing civil rights charges against the officers involved in these shootings. The report only brings the conditions of the Ferguson Police Department to light in their misappropriate handling of people of color. Crump says proving a shooter was race motivated is too high for a civil rights charge and that the bar for these charges needs to be lowered. He believes with the proof the report shows for racism apparent in the department has to mean that same racism spills into the individual officers.
Just days after the Justice Department’s report was released, Tony Robinson was shot and killed by an officer in Madison WI. Robinson’s death is being protested by dozens who shout, ‘Black Lives Matter’. There are other black suspects who have died at the hands of police officers that are prompting nationwide protests against racial policing.
Eric Garner died in July after being put in a choke hold by a New York police officer, Tamir Rice was fatally shot for pointing a pellet gun at a playground in Cleveland and Dontre Hamilton who was shot by an officer in Milwaukee later found to have acted in self-defense. These cases are some of the high profile incidents fueling the protests across the country demanding a change in civil rights charges.
In Madison protesters slogan is being adopted by activists and protesters nationwide. The protesters are peaceful and city’s chief of police says he understands their anger and assures them his department will defend their rights and asks the community to act with restraint.
Black lies matter!
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