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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 04 2024
News
Man accused of vandalizing Kingston church, burning Pride and Black Lives Matter flags
KINGSTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A 43-year-old Plymouth man is accused of illegally entering and vandalizing a Kingston church early Thursday morning, police said. Jonathan White was arrested later after he allegedly entered the First Parish Unitarian Church overnight and “did significant damage to the building,” according to the Kingston Police Department. Investigators discovered that handmade 200-
WHDH 7
Jul 16 2024
News
A Springfield alderman is trying to get Black Lives Matter street signs up again downtown
A Springfield alderman said he wants Black Lives Matter street signs returned after they were taken down by city workers on June 3. Ward 2 Ald. Shawn Gregory directed city attorney Gregory Moredock to draft an ordinance to return the honorary signs which were at the intersections of Fourth and Jackson and Fifth and Jackson streets, near the Governor's Mansion. The ordinance would have to pass
The State Journal-Register
Jul 11 2024
News
Judge tosses lawsuit against Black Lives Matter activist over Baton Rouge protests
A case brought by a Baton Rouge police officer against a Black Lives Matter protester and supporter for an incident at an Alton Sterling protest in 2016 has been dismissed by a federal judge. Louisiana Middle District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson ruled Wednesday against John Ford, who suffered an injury during the protest and filed a civil suit against civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson.
The Advocate
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
May 16 2024
News
Abbott pardons man who fatally shot Black Lives Matter protester
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a pardon Thursday for Daniel Perry, a former Army sergeant who shot and killed an armed protester at a Black Lives Matter protest. Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison last May for fatally shooting Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, at a demonstration against police violence and social injustice in Austin, Texas. Both Perry and Foster are white
Yahoo News
May 16 2024
News
Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he was pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a Black Lives Matter march, after a review board recommended he be released from prison.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” he
Washington Post
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
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 (News)
Aug 24 2020
Analysis
America’s black upper class and Black Lives Matter
Lawrence Otis Graham recalls where he first met Kamala Harris, last summer, in Martha’s Vineyard. It was at the holiday home of Spike Lee, a film director, who held a $1,500-a-head fundraiser for the woman who is now number two on the Democratic ticket. “She is the new Barack Obama for us,” says the thrilled Mr Graham, an author and property lawyer from New York. By “us” Mr Graham means
The Economist