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May 09 2023
News
Florida Axes Textbook Passage on George Floyd, Black Lives Matter
The Florida Department of Education axed mentions of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police murder of George Floyd from a textbook it reviewed, the latest development in the state’s crusade against “woke” education. The state announced Tuesday that it rejected 35 percent of the 101 social studies textbooks submitted to it by publishers, and demanded changes to two-thirds of the
Daily Beast
Apr 19 2023
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Michigan man gets 10 months in prison for Black Lives Matter threats
A judge sentenced a Michigan man to 10 months in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to two hate crime charges for intimidating and attempting to intimidate people protesting in support of Black Lives Matter. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington also sentenced Kenneth Pilon, 62, of Saginaw to one-year of supervised release. Pilon was accused of calling nine Starbucks stores in Michigan
CBS News (Online)
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
Mar 01 2023
News
Black Lives Matter right-to-protest cases faring poorly
(Reuters) - New York City reached a preliminary agreement on Wednesday to pay $21,500 each to roughly 300 people who alleged they were cornered and abused by police during a June 2020 racial justice protest following the killing of George Floyd. The proposed settlement that still needs court approval would award $21,500 to each of the more than 300 people arrested, and it would place New York
Reuters
Apr 09 2023
News
Texas governor wants to pardon man who killed Black Lives Matter protester
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Saturday he seeks to pardon a man convicted of murdering a legally armed 28-year-old during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, while also chiding the prosecutor’s office that secured the conviction. “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand your ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or progressive district attorney,” Abbott said on
Washington Post
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
Mar 02 2023
News
New York City to Pay Settlement for ‘Kettling’ Black Lives Matter Rioters
New York City and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have agreed to a settlement that will pay millions to a group of Black Lives Matter rioters who were arrested or detained during a series of riots in June of 2020. As ABC News reports, the settlement claims that the over 300 rioters in question were detained through a police tactic known as “kettling,” where police create a large
American Greatness
Apr 08 2023
News
Abbott seeks pardon for Army sergeant convicted of murder during Black Lives Matter protest
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said on Saturday that he is seeking a pardon for an Army sergeant who was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed Black Lives Matter protester. Sgt. Daniel Perry was convicted on Friday for the July 2020 killing of 28-year-old Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas. “I am working as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon
The Hill
Sep 06 2020
Analysis
On Listening and the Black Lives Matter Movement
In the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting and subsequent riots in Kenosha, Wis., we’ve once again been barraged with claims that America is an inherently racist nation. These claims take their cue from Critical Race Theory (CRT), a theoretical framework that interprets society and culture through the lens of race. CRT started in left-wing social-science departments, and has now been made
National Review
Jul 24 2020
Fact Check
Is Black Lives Matter a Marxist movement?
Backlash against Black Lives Matter includes branding it as Marxist.
The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer; Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development; conservative talk show host Mark Levin; and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.
Aren’t sure what Marxism is, actually? It was
PolitiFact