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A Nevada sheriff wasn't pleased with a local library's support for the Black Lives Matter movement. So, he issued a thinly-veiled threat.

"Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help," Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley wrote an open letter this week. "I wish you good luck with disturbances and lewd behavior, since those are just some of the recent calls my office has assisted you with in the past."

He also accused BLM of conducting protests that "have resulted in violence, property damage and the closing of local businesses, sometimes permanently."

"To support this movement is to support violence and to openly ask for it to happen in Douglas County," he wrote.

The letter was in response to a proposed diversity statement previously shared by the County Public Library Board of Trustees. In addition to declaring support for BLM, the draft statement also condemned "all acts of violence, racism and disregard for human rights."

Douglas County Public Library Director Amy Dodson told The Washington Post the diversity statement wasn't intended to be anti-police, but rather a message of inclusivity. She also emphasized that the library supports local law enforcement and does not back a movement that calls for police defunding.

"It simply was meant to state our inclusivity at the library, that we are open and welcoming to everyone and we treat everyone equally," Dodson said. "I want the sheriff's office to know we do love and support our law enforcement here. We would never want to support a movement to defund the police, so to speak. I think a lot of this has been a big misunderstanding."

After Coverley's letter was published, the county library canceled its Tuesday meeting to discuss the diversity statement. County spokeswoman Melissa Blosser told the Reno Gazette Journal trustees decided to cancel due to "overwhelming amount of community response." Blosser also confirmed the county demanded the library to remove the statement draft from its Facebook page.

"We had them take it down. We cannot use public owned media to propagate a political agenda," Blosser said. "Sheriff Coverley would also like to take this opportunity to clarify that the Douglas County Sheriff's Office will continue to respond to all 911 calls, including those at the Library."

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Nevada Sheriff Threatens County Library That Expressed Support for Black Lives Matter

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A Nevada sheriff wasn't pleased with a local library's support for the Black Lives Matter movement. So, he issued a thinly-veiled threat. "Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help," Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley wrote an open letter this week.

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Prevost, Tamarah. “The Racial Discrimination That Existing Laws Fail to Capture.” SFChronicle.com, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2020, www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-racial-discrimination-that-existing-laws-fail-15414612.php.

Reynolds, Jason, and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

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“But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you.” (71, Coates)

“To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown.” (99, Coates)

“In understanding the psychology of oppression, the oppressed initially adopt “avoidance reactions” which are responses that prevent adverse outcomes from occurring. This happens before one truly internalizes the ideologies of the oppressor, which ultimately results in engaging in self-destructive behaviors before reaching the point of internalized racism.” (Oppression and Power)

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“No one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of “race,” imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods.” (83, Coates)

“He believed that the most unblemished, purest, perfect minds belonged to Whites, which basically meant Africans had dirty brains.” (Stamped)

"We understand that oppression occurs when individuals are systematically subjected to political, economic, cultural, or social degradation because they belong to a certain social group." (Oppression and Power)

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“She pushed back against the idea that she, as a Black person, woman, and lesbian, was expected to educate White people, men, and/or heterosexuals in order for them to recognize her humanity.” (Stamped)

“people, but one of the most revolutionary things he did in the collection was honor Black women. This was a huge deal, because Black women had either been completely left out of the race conversation or turned into objects to look at,” (Stamped)

“Rather than focusing on the politics of difference, intersectionality describes the interlocking patterns of oppression and marginality that structure people’s lives, opportunities, and enfranchisement.” (Oppression and Power)

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Of the many disadvantages that people of color face, some of the most prominent are discrimination, multiplied disadvantage due to intersectionality, and the fear of not having government protection, all of which continue to cause the extreme systemic racism in America.