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Working to rebuild the Black Liberation movement

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Black Lives Matter Movement

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Updated February 23, 2018 12:51:38

As the United States continues to grapple with rising tensions over alleged police brutality against black Americans, we look at how a young man's walk to buy sweets in 2012 sparked a nationwide movement.

Here are the some of the key moments of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Trayvon Martin is shot by neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman

February 26, 2012

Trayvon Martin, 17, is fatally shot by neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on a visit to the convenience store to buy a drink and sweets.

The teenager had been visiting his father's fiance in Sanford, Florida, when he had an altercation with Zimmerman.

Initially Zimmerman is not charged by Sanford Police. After a public outcry, Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.

The Black Lives Matter movement officially starts when Zimmerman is later acquitted of murdering Martin.

Zimmerman goes on to the sell the gun he used to shoot the teen for $US250,000.

Jordan Davis is shot at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida

November 23, 2012

African-American teenager Jordan Davis, 17, and his three friends are stopped in a gas station parking lot to buy gum and cigarettes.

They are approached by white man Michael Dunn and after an verbal argument about the volume of the teenagers' music, Dunn shoots 10 rounds into their car, killing Davis.

Dunn is sentenced to life in prison without parole. Davis' death is the focus of documentary film 3½ Minutes and becomes part of the national conversation about the dangers facing young black men in America.

Renisha McBride is shot dead in Detroit after a car accident

November 2, 2013

Renisha McBride, 19, knocks on the door of Theodore Wafer's home in the early hours of the morning after she is involved in a car crash in Detroit, Michigan.

Wafer fatally shoots her through his door.

The case initially stirs racial tensions because Wafer is white and McBride was black. Her supporters rally in Detroit after her death and online activists launch a campaign for justice.

Wafer receives a 17-year sentence for a raft of charges which includes second-degree murder and manslaughter.

'I can't breathe' - Eric Garner is choked to death on Staten Island, New York

July 17, 2014

Eric Garner, 43, is killed by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo after being put in a chokehold on the side of the road.

A bystander films the footage of the 43-year-old father gasping for air and saying "I can't breathe" before turning limp.

The phrase becomes a key part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Protests erupt in New York after a grand jury fails to indict the officer.

John Crawford is killed by police at a Walmart in Ohio

August 5, 2014

John Crawford, 22, is shot dead by police after being seen with a toy gun, which he picked up in the store.

He and his girlfriend were at the Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, to pick up crackers, marshmallows and chocolate bars for a family gathering.

Unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed in Ferguson, Missouri

August 9, 2014

Unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by officer Darren Wilson outside of an apartment complex in Ferguson, Missouri.

Just two days later on August 11, Ezell Ford, who according to his family has a mental disability, is killed by Los Angeles police officers while walking in the street.

An autopsy shows Ford had been shot in the back at close range.

A state of emergency is declared in Missouri after protests turn violent.

Laquan McDonald is killed by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago

October 20, 2014

Laquan McDonald, 17, is shot 16 times in 13 seconds by police officer Jason Van Dyke after he refuses to drop a three-inch knife in Chicago, Illinois.

Dash-cam footage of the incident is released by officials on November 24, 2015, prompting hundreds to protest.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fires the city's police superintendent Garry McCarthy over his handling of the shooting.

Van Dyke is charged with murder.

Tamir Rice is shot by a police officer after carrying a toy gun in Ohio

November 23, 2014

Tamir Rice, 12, is seen pointing a gun at random people Cleveland, Ohio. A call is made to police. The caller says the gun is "probably fake", but the information is not relayed to the attending officers.

Within seconds of arriving on the scene, police officer Timothy Loehmann fires two shots, hitting Rice in the torso. Rice dies the next day.

A Cleveland grand jury declines to bring charges against Loehmann and his partner Frank Garmback.

A month later, two New York Police officers are shot dead in an ambush on December 20 in Brooklyn following protests.

Freddie Gray is arrested in Baltimore, dies after sustaining injuries in police custody

April 12, 2015

Freddie Gray runs after seeing police in Baltimore, Maryland. The 25-year-old is arrested for possessing what they describe as an illegal switchblade.

Requests for his inhaler are ignored. He is put into the police vehicle without a restraint, against police policy.

While being transported in a police van, he falls into a coma. He dies on April 19 from injuries to his spinal cord.

Demonstrators take to the streets and the National Guard is dispatched in an attempt to restore order.

Just months later, Sandra Bland, 28, is found hanged while in police custody in Texas, on July 13.

She had been pulled over for a minor traffic violation on July 10.

Jamar Clark is shot by police in Minneapolis

November 16, 2015

Jamar Clark, 24, is shot in the head by police, with some witnesses claiming he was handcuffed at the time

The Black Lives Matter movement protests outside the Fourth Precinct police station for 18 days.

No charges are filed against police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze.

Days later Akai Gurley is in the stairwell of a Brooklyn apartment building on November 20 when he is shot dead.

New York police officer Peter Liang is subsequently charged with murder.

Anton Sterling is shot five times in the chest at close range by police

July 5, 2016

Two videos capture the moment Alton Sterling, 37, is pinned down to the ground and shot five times in the chest at close range by police outside a convenience store at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Police call for calm after major protests kick off in Baton Rouge after the video is released.

Federal authorities say they will handle the investigation, led by the Department of Justice's civil rights division.

Diamond Reynolds live streams aftermath of boyfriend's shooting

July 6, 2016

Diamond Reynolds uses Facebook Live to stream the fallout of her boyfriend Philando Castile being shot by police in Minnesota.

He is allegedly shot by a police officer while reaching for his wallet after being pulled over.

Castile later dies in hospital.

The video has been viewed more than 5.6 million times.

Five police officers are killed by a sniper at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas

July 7, 2016

A peaceful Black Lives Matter turns to mayhem as a gunman shoots and kills five police officers.

US President Barack Obama describes the attack at "vicious, calculated and despicable".

Here's ABC Washington DC bureau chief Zoe Daniel:
The deliberate attack on police in Dallas has shocked a nation used to shootings and connected race relations and gun violence, arguably America's two most intractable problems.

Before he was killed, the Dallas shooter told police that he was killing white officers as payback for the deaths of Alton Sterling who was shot point blank by police in Louisiana last week and Philando Castile who bled out live on Facebook after being shot by police in Minnesota.

It has once again opened a divide, and a heated conversation, about racial profiling.

Consider this from the Washington Post: "...black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers".

Statistics show that plenty of white people get shot by police too, but as a percentage of the population African Americans are dramatically over represented.

Charles Kinsey is shot while trying to help patient with autism

July 22, 2016

Unarmed black man Charles Kinsey is shot and injured in Miami while lying on the ground with his arms raised in the air and pleading with officers to hold their fire.

Mr Kinsey's leg was injured in the incident, which came as he tried to help a disoriented autistic man who had wandered away from a group home where Mr Kinsey works as a behavioural therapist.

Mobile phone footage showed Mr Kinsey on the ground with his arms in the air, with the young autistic man sitting on the ground nearby playing with a small white toy.

Where to from here?

Zoe Daniel writes:

Mr Obama has said "America is not as divided as some have suggested", trying to calm a population fearing race riots will break out.

Yet others have dubbed the nation a 'powder keg' as nervous police and Black Lives Matter activists face off at protests around the country.

Again, the nation's first black President has called for calm.

"You're not seeing riots and you're not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully," he says.

"You've seen almost uniformly peaceful protests and you've seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism."
But tension is high. Another incident may well light the fuse.

Topics: community-and-society, discrimination, race-relations, multiculturalism, obama-barack, law-crime-and-justice, human, united-states

First posted July 14, 2016 12:34:35

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Updated February 23, 2018 12:51:38 As the United States continues to grapple with rising tensions over alleged police brutality against black Americans, we look at how a young man's walk to buy sweets in 2012 sparked a nationwide movement. Here are the some of the key moments of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Why Black lives are important

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I never experienced segregated schools.

I have never been denied the right to vote.

I have never been stopped and frisked.

I have never had the "discussion" with my children about how to act if stopped by a police officer. My father never had that discussion with me either.

I have never been questioned by a police officer when I have visited Black neighborhoods.

I have never been judged differently by my peers because of my skin color.

I have never experienced the devastating impacts of implicit bias in school or in my career.

When the 20 children and six educators were murdered in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, where I live, the national and international media flooded my town for months. When 26 people are murdered in Chicago on a summer night, it is a footnote in the national news.

As a result, I cannot discount the Black Lives Matter movement by simply saying "all lives matter." That would not do justice to the struggle of my black friends, colleagues and all black Americans. I simply do not know what it is like to be a black man in the United States of America. But, change will come only if all Americans try to understand what is driving the Black Lives Matter movement and then work together to combat racism wherever it exists and promote dignity, justice and respect for everyone.

My ancestors suffered the worst kind of racism as a result of politics of hatred and ignorance during the Holocaust. I grew up knowing survivors, including my mother and grandparents, and the refrain "never again" was ingrained in me. That is why what is occurring in America today keeps me up at night and frightens me. We live in a country swimming in hateful rhetoric, guns and years of institutionalized racism. This toxic mix is now boiling over in the streets of our communities from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Minnesota to Dallas. And it won't end there unless and until all Americans stand up and speak out. That is why trying to understand the Black Lives Matter movement is so important.

To be clear, however, violence against police officers will not solve anything. Indeed, the Black Lives Matter movement has condemned the attacks on the police officers in Dallas, calling it a "tragedy - both for those who have been impacted by yesterday's attack and for our democracy." The movement must be vigilant to make sure its rhetoric does not encourage violence against police officers, and to denounce it when others do so. The overwhelming majority of police officers are good people who defend our freedoms.

The Black Lives Matter movement should be considered by all Americans as a recognition and a challenge. We should recognize the effects of hundreds of years of discrimination. We should challenge our government, our institutions, our police forces, our criminal justice system, our corporations, and our schools and universities to constantly examine their policies to promote diversity and inclusion, to call out discrimination and reduce implicit bias. Implicit bias training must be part of police training. The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that more than 33,000 federal agents and prosecutors will receive training aimed at preventing unconscious bias from influencing their law enforcement decisions. That effort should be expanded.

In addition, we must solve our gun violence problem. If we continue to allow criminals and other dangerous people to easily purchase firearms, we are putting law enforcement in harm's way and creating untenable situations for well-intentioned police officers. All of this will take time. But unless we start right now, the events of this past week will become more and more routine, and our democracy based on the rule of law will erode.

During the civil rights movement, white students joined the Freedom Rides, marched on Washington, spoke out against injustice and locked arms with black men and women to demand change. In these troubling times, each of us should think about how we can effect change in all of our communities and work to make it happen. It is time to speak out against politics of hatred and policies that divide us. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
Frank is president of the Connecticut Bar Association and president of the New England Bar Association. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him on Twitter @montefrank1.

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I never experienced segregated schools. I have never been denied the right to vote. I have never been stopped and frisked. I have never had the "discussion" with my children about how to act if stopped by a police officer. My father never had that discussion with me either.

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Cop For Black Lives Matter In Hopes of Going Viral

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www.feministisktinitiativ.se www.facebook.com/feministisktinitiativ @Feministerna #staypink #‎BlackLivesMatter‬ ‪#‎BlackLivesMatterSwe‬ THE SWEDISH FEMINIST PARTY STANDS WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER. This is our message to our African-American friends. FEMINISTISKT INITIATIV SOLIDARISERAR SIG MED BLACK LIVES MATTER-RÖRELSEN I USA. Detta är vårt meddelande till våra afrikanamerikanska vänner. Big thank you to the black activists!

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'Black Lives Matter' has been incredibly harmful to black people. BLM has completely betrayed the example set by Martin Luther King. Source for police shooting stats: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/ Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71 FOLLOW Paul Joseph Watson @ https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet