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Sep 07 2023
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New York City Negotiates Protest Truce Between NYPD, Black Lives Matter
NEW YORK, NY – A truce has been agreed upon between city officials, the NYPD and Black Lives Matter in response to police response to violent protests in 2020 in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. That protest led to 18 deaths and billions of dollars in damages nationwide, including here in New York City where businesses were vandalized, innocent
Shore News Network
Aug 13 2023
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Skittles tests the Bud Light waters with "Black Trans Lives Matter"
Skittles, the candy product popular with children, has become the latest brand after Bud Light to commit financial suicide by placing “Black Trans Lives Matter” and LGBTQ rainbows on its packaging.
The candy brand joined forces with a far-left group called The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which supports children receiving sex procedures, including gender
HotAir
Jun 11 2023
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Artists repaint vandalized Black Lives Matter mural in Hartford
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Artists from the Hartford community came together Sunday morning to repaint a Black Lives Matter mural. The mural, which was originally painted in 2020, was vandalized Saturday with a swastika and other hateful symbols. This morning, artists repainting the Black Lives Matter mural in Hartford found a swastika and hateful symbols scrawled on the mural. Here’s my statement
CBS News (Online)
Jul 28 2023
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Man pleads guilty in 2020 death of Black Lives Matter protester in U.S.
A man who hit two protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies. Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, The Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges. Attorneys as part
Todays Chronic
Nov 17 2020
Analysis
The Failure of Black Lives Matter
BLM's anti-police rallying cry was the dumbest, most self-destructive slogan in American politics in a very long time.
Black Lives Matter came up with the single most effective political slogan of the year.
While no one was likely to be overly impressed with Joe Biden’s line, “Build Back Better,” and Donald Trump’s “Keep America Great” or “Make America Great Again, Again” didn’t
Rich Lowry
Jul 30 2023
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Seattle man pleads guilty in 2020 death of Black Lives Matter protester in Washington
A man who hit two protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies. Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, The Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges. Attorneys as part
The Oregonian
Aug 16 2023
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Federal Court Sides With Activists Who Chalked ‘Black Pre-Born Lives Matter’ on D.C. Sidewalk
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court unanimously sided with anti-abortion protesters who were arrested in Washington, D.C. after they wrote anti-abortion chalk messages in summer 2020 during the height of the protests following the murder of George Floyd. The anti-abortion protests argued that their First Amendments rights were violated when they were arrested, and the court agreed that their
Jezebel
Aug 12 2023
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Skittles faces backlash after it partners with GLAAD and puts 'Black Trans Lives Matter' on its packaging
Candy brand Skittles is facing backlash after partnering with GLAAD and altering some of its packaging to include 'Black Trans Lives Matter' messaging.
Images of the packet on social media prompted an outpouring of criticism on Twitter today, with many likening the 'woke' marketing to Dylan Mulvaney being used in Bud Light advertising.
It's the fourth year Skittles has teamed
Daily Mail
Jul 28 2023
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Driver in I-5 collision that killed Capitol Hill Black Lives Matter demonstrator pleads guilty
The driver in the July 2020 I-5 crash that killed a Capitol Hill Black Lives Matter protester and severely injured another demonstrator has pleaded guilty. CHS reported here on the impending trial for Dawit Kelete, now 30, after repeated delays. Kelete’s attorney’s reached a plea agreement with King County Prosecutor in which the defendant admitted guilt to one count of vehicular homicide, a
CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News
Apr 10 2021
Analysis
The effects of Black Lives Matter protests
There’s long been a fierce debate about the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on the lethal use of force by police. A new study, one of the first to make a rigorous academic attempt to answer that question, found that the protests have had a notable impact on police killings. For every 4,000 people who participated in a Black Lives Matter protest between 2014 and 2019, police killed one
Vox