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Activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. Black Lives Matter activists are calling for a formal apology from Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman and District Attorney Devon Anderson for the comments they made regarding the Black Lives Matter movement after the death of Deputy Darron Goforth.

Activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. Black Lives Matter activists are calling for a formal apology from Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman and District Attorney

Shere Dore was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

Shere Dore was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

- Despite her November arrest, Sheree Dore showed up to protest Saturday with BLM.

- Despite her November arrest, Sheree Dore showed up to protest Saturday with BLM.

Shere Dore protests against President-elect Donald J. Trump during a manifestation on the corner of Post Oak and Westheimer Road, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Houston.

Shere Dore protests against President-elect Donald J. Trump during a manifestation on the corner of Post Oak and Westheimer Road, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Houston.

Shere Dore creates a sign to support opposition against the President-elect Donald Trump and his rhetoric toward immigrants. Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Houston.

Shere Dore creates a sign to support opposition against the President-elect Donald Trump and his rhetoric toward immigrants. Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Houston.

Gizelle Tolbert, left, and Shere Dore make signs for a rally Sunday at the Waller County Jail, where Sandra Bland died in custody last month after being arrested during a traffic stop.

Gizelle Tolbert, left, and Shere Dore make signs for a rally Sunday at the Waller County Jail, where Sandra Bland died in custody last month after being arrested during a traffic stop.

Th homeless vet with attorney Randall Kalinin and advocate Shere Dore. (Photo by Mike Glenn/Chronicle)

Th homeless vet with attorney Randall Kalinin and advocate Shere Dore. (Photo by Mike Glenn/Chronicle)

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Houston Black Lives Matter protester remains jailed in what lawyer says are 'curious' circumstances

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist accused of punching a police horse will remain behind bars for at least two more days after being arrested on her way to court earlier this month.

Shere Dore, 41, was a passenger in a car pulled over for an expired inspection sticker in her Fort Bend County neighborhood on July 6, her attorney said Tuesday. That led to her continued confinement without bail in Harris County.

"I think they're trying to wear her down," attorney Jolanda Jones said. "I think her First Amendment rights are being criminalized."

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Dore was arrested July 6 for warrants stemming from a two-year-old speeding charge. She was on her way to downtown Houston for a routine court appearance, but because she was jailed in Fort Bend, she missed her court date.

Harris County prosecutors moved to have her $2,000 bail revoked because she missed court.

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Now, although her fines in Fort Bend have been settled, Jones said, Dore continues to be held because her bail has been revoked.

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's curious to me," she said. "She missed court because she was on her way to court."

Jones also said it was suspicious that Dore was arrested just as she was leaving her home, and as a passenger in somebody else's car.

"She didn't even get out of her neighborhood," the attorney said.

After her fines were settled in Fort Bend County, Dore was transferred to the Harris County Jail and she was put on the docket Tuesday. State District Judge Jim Wallace, who is out of town at a judicial conference, is expected to take up the matter on Thursday.

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Jones and attorney Brian Harrison have pointed out that it is unusual that any open warrants did not come up when she was arrested in November 2016.

In that case, she is accused of punching a police horse at a Donald Trump protest. Jones has steadily maintained her client is innocent.

"There's not one video of her hitting a horse," Jones said. "There's a whole bunch of video from all kinds of angles, from all kinds of people, from all kinds of police interviews and the one thing you never see is her hitting a horse or touching a horse."

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Chauntyll Allen wasnt sure how to feel on Monday when she traveled to Justine Damonds memorial site in the affluent South Minneapolis neighborhood known as Fulton.

The 43-year-old leader of a Black Lives Matter group in St. Paul, Minnesota, stood near Xerxes Avenue and 51st St. by the late Damonds home, watching the mostly white residents share remarks about police brutality and the need for police reform.

Many of those same people, Allen recalled, were nowhere to be found when she and her fellow activists were out marching for justice for black police-shooting victims like Philando Castile and Jamar Clark.

Some white people dont feel the tragedy until one of them is murdered, Allen told Mic on Wednesday.

Despite her reservations, Allen and her pro-BLM allies are joining the call for justice for Damond, an Australian white woman, who was fatally shot Saturday by Mohamed Noor, a black and Muslim Minneapolis police officer of Somali descent.

Were going to be doing a rally on Friday in solidarity with Justine, Allen said. Its that time where that 99% of people need to get together and decide that lives need to matter. Im not saying All Lives Matter. Im saying, lives matter.

Damonds shooting death in many ways has flipped the script in the national conversation about race and policing.

It illustrates the reality that white Americans, who represent 61% of the population, also make up the majority of the roughly 1,000 Americans killed by police officers every year.

Police brutality has been framed largely as a black issue because black people, who only make up about 13% of the population, are nearly three times as likely as their white counterparts to be killed during encounters with law enforcement.

Blacks are also more likely than whites to be incarcerated for longer sentences for committing the same crimes even though whites and blacks commit many crimes at about the same rate.

Allen and other activists say they dont want the dialogue on Damond to whitewash the larger conversation about the need for police reform, fearing that could water down the BLM movements push to address institutional racism as a whole.

Yet local BLM supporters realize that Damonds death has raised awareness among their white neighbors that issues that affect black lives more still affect white people as well, and that the skin color or religion of the role players involved in fatal police encounters shouldnt change the publics perception.

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds

Weve been warning the general public about patterns of police abuse and the need for reforms for years, activist and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds told Mic on Wednesday. Our warnings have fallen on deaf ears.

Levy-Pounds is the civil rights attorney who helped found Minneapolis now-defunct BLM organization back in November of 2014 and later served as president of the citys NAACP chapter. On Sunday, Levy-Pounds spoke at a vigil for Damond in Fulton along with leaders from the local NAACP.

We talked about how what happened to Justine is part of a larger pattern of police violence and abuse that has been allowed to go on unchecked in the state of Minnesota and Minneapolis, Levy-Pounds said. We connected her murder to the murders of Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, Phil Quinn, the list goes on and on.

The apparent unequal empathy expressed for people of color encompasses more than just police shooting victims in the Damond case.

Officer Mohamed Noor

According to activists Mic spoke with, part of the conflict the Minneapolis black community is having over Damonds shooting is ironically about the perceived unequal and unfair treatment of the police officer who allegedly shot her.

Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges declined to weigh in on the police investigation after Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot in the head by a white police officer in November of 2015. But Hodges appeared to question Noor and his partners use of their body cameras within days of Damonds shooting.

Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau, left, and Mayor Betsy Hodges

Black Twin Cities locals previously have seen typically pro-police media outlets like Fox News run stories about the importance of supporting law enforcement.

Yet Fox chose to refer to Noor as a Somali immigrant cop.

Alex Jones Info Wars and sites like the Daily Mail and World Net Daily called Noor the killer cop who was a diversity hire.

We found it very perplexing, independent journalist KingDemetrius Pendleton said in an interview Wednesday. Mr. Trump has already created a lot of Islamophobia. In Minneapolis, you have a high population of Somali immigrants. Now this is raising tensions between Muslims and Christians. Its kind of like the media is pitting one against each other, divide and conquer.

Pendleton is the South Minneapolis man locals affectionately refer to as Black CNN. The 47-year-old, whos routinely seen wielding a camera phone while filming protests, has spent the last four days in Fulton capturing the drama and posting interviews with white Fulton residents on his Facebook page.

Pendleton has watched the mainstream media write about criminal records and drug use of black police-brutality victims like Eric Garner, Timothy Caughman and Freddie Gray, among others, yet has seen no such stories emerge about Damond, the Australia yoga instructor and beautiful bride-to-be who moved to America for love.

Castile, Pendleton recalled, was engaged to be married as well.

Its like a double standard, Pendleton said as he sat with a friend at a coffee shop up the street from the scene where Damond was shot days earlier.

People are going to come up with their own narrative when it comes to this situation. Its not about being pro-Black Lives Matter. Im pro-do whats right. Thats what matters. The truth deserves no apology.

As a BLM leader and police-reform seeker, Allen said its encouraging to see the conversation has shifted from white Minneapolis natives being concerned for their black neighbors safety around police to being concerned for their own loved ones and themselves.

Its kind of like, Oh, this is real now, she said. Its discombobulating to think about, Should we call 911? If something like this could happen to this white woman, theyre afraid this could happen to them.

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Lets begin with a thought experiment. Imagine if one of Americas largest and most-respected pro-life organizations tweeted birthday greetings to Robert Dear, the terrorist who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015.Imagine the reaction if an allegedly mainstream conservative organization said happy birthday to Dylann Roof, the white-supremacist murderer who slaughtered nine innocent people in Charleston.

How would the media respond? What would the tweets reveal about the character and intentions of the people running the organization? Should well-meaning Americans continue to support groups that applaud violent, vicious terrorists?

The answers are obvious. Of course the media would and should absolutely roast any conservative group that applauded pro-life or white-supremacist violence. Of course well-meaning Americans should shun and withdraw support for groups that celebrate terrorists. And of course support for terrorists would reveal a moral corruption at the heart of even the most popular organizations.

Unless, however, those groups are on the left, their leaders are progressive radicals, and the terrorists they applaud are cop-killers. Then, the media ignores the outrage, elevates the outrageous, and maintains the charade that key elements of the progressive #Resistance represent nothing more than a spontaneous, reasonable, and virtuous response to a dangerous and authoritarian president.

Doubt me? Consider the reverence reserved for the Womens March and Black Lives Matter.

Mainstream media coverage of both organizations has been fawning, and their leaders have been subject to heroic profiles. As a result, millions of well-intentioned, reasonable liberals have been duped into supporting and elevating both groups, which do things like this:

Yes, thats an official Womens March tweet delivering birthday greetings to one of the FBIs most-wanted terrorists. Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard) is a convicted cop-killer who now lives in Cuba after escaping an American prison. Heres the FBI summary of her crimes:

Joanne Chesimard is wanted for escaping from prison in Clinton, New Jersey, while serving a life sentence for murder. On May 2, 1973, Chesimard, who was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time, Chesimard was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery. Chesimard and her accomplices opened fire on the troopers. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range. Chesimard fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.

In other words, shes a domestic terrorist who belonged to a domestic terrorist organization. If the Womens March had an ounce of integrity, it would have apologized, deleted its tweet, and terminated the person responsible. Instead, it responded to the inevitable deluge of criticism with a 20-tweet screed rationalizing and excusing its support for Shakur. Yes, it issued a rote call for nonviolent resistance, but it also threw out howlers like this:

And this:

Whats next? An ode to Muriel Degauque because she broke the glass ceiling on female suicide bombers when she blew herself up in Iraq in 2005? A tribute to Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan for his dedication to the Palestinian cause? (Sirhans resistance tactics were different from ours. That does not mean we dont respect his condemnations of Israeli aggression.)

This should surprise no one, of course. The Womens March is the home of radical activist Linda Sarsour, the mainstream-media darling whose story has been ably told by our own Ian Tuttle. Among other things, Sarsour is a conspiracy theorist, she fabricated a hate crime against herself, and shes uncomfortably close to Islamic terrorists. Heres Ian:

Sarsour seems to have no qualms about associating with outright extremism, either. At Decembers MAS-ICNA convention, she posed for a photo with Salah Sarsour (no relation), a Milwaukee man who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s for using his Twin Cities furniture store to funnel money to Hamas, the terrorist organization that currently governs the Gaza Strip. Linda Sarsour herself has used Twitter to encourage the stoning of the Israel Defense Forces. She has also pushed back against accusations of human-rights abuses in parts of the Arab world. And later this spring, she will appear at the Jewish Voice for Peaces 2017 National Member Meeting alongside Rasmeah Odeh, who was sentenced to life in prison by an Israeli court in 1970 for her role in two 1969 bombings in Jerusalem, one near the British Consulate and another at a grocery store; the latter bombing killed two Hebrew University students and wounded nine others. Sarsour has previously championed Odeh on Twitter.

Given this record, conservatives can be excused for being troubled at her recent call for a form of jihad against the Trump administration.

Praise for terrorists isnt limited to Sarsour or to the Womens March; Black Lives Matter has gotten in on the action, too. Late last year, after Fidel Castro died, BLM published an extraordinarily odious tribute to El Comandante (yes, they used that phrase) that lauded him for sheltering Shakur and other domestic terrorists:

As a Black network committed to transformation, we are particularly grateful to Fidel for holding Mama Assata Shakur, who continues to inspire us. We are thankful that he provided a home for Brother Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, and Charles Hill, asylum to Brother Huey P. Newton, and sanctuary for so many other Black revolutionaries who were being persecuted by the American government during the Black Power era.

Finney, Goodwin, and Hill werecop-killers and hijackers. Newton was also a cop-killer. Given this explicit praise, and the number of times that BLM protesters have openly called for violence against the police, and the number of times that BLM rallies have descended into violence (mostly peaceful, the media euphemistically calls them), isnt it time to consign the organization to the fringe of American life?

The continued media respect for the Womens March and Black Lives Matter is even more maddening given the double standards applied to conservative organizations. Last week, both ABC and NBC had the gall to credulously repeat far-Left claims that my former employer, the Alliance Defending Freedom, was a hate group not because it has ever endorsed violence (it hasnt), but because of its steadfast legal and moral defense of orthodox Christian positions on sexual morality.

Heres my question, ABC and NBC: If youre going to publicize hate group claims about groups like the ADF in your headlines, why not do the same in every one of your headlines about Black Lives Matter or the Womens March? Given our polarized times, shouldnt readers be aware that both of those groups have praised and applauded one of the FBIs most-wanted domestic terrorists? Isnt that information well-meaning readers deserve to know?

As it is, these radical groups enjoy the best of both worlds, maintaining the mainstream-media credibility that allows them to raise money and capture the support of millions while also applauding and sustaining a far more dangerous fringe. Reasonable Americans march. Well-meaning Americans donate. Radicals profit.

Yesterday, CNNs Jake Tapper broke ranks with his media colleagues and explicitly challenged the Womens March and Sarsour. This was an ideal time for them to retract their tweet and apologize. Instead, Sarsour said Tapper had join[ed] the ranks of the alt-right by criticizing her. This was unhinged, and breathtakingly dishonest to boot.

Its time for the rest of the media to join Tapper, awaken from its anti-Trump trance, apply the same scrutiny to the Left as it does to the Right, and report the sad truth. Two of Americas most well-known #Resistance groups claim nonviolence but applaud terrorists. Liberal Americans, they havent earned your support and they dont deserve your respect.

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David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.

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As a crowd gathered for a Thursday morning announcement on new parks and completed construction projects along the Ben Franklin Parkway at the Philadelphia Free Librarys Main Branch, activists seized the opportunity to have their voices heard at a gathering of the citys elected officials.

Just moments after a man dressed in a William Shakespeare costume helped announce the new Shakespeare Park at the library, Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif stepped to the front of the crowd in the lobby of the library, letting his voice echo across the building's marble floor.

Khalif and others came seeking answers in the fatal June 8 shooting of David Jones. Jones, who was reportedly armed, was killed by an officer of the citys 15th police district shotonce in the back and once in the buttock as he ran from a scuffle with the officer after being pulled over on his dirt bike.

The people must hold politicians accountable, said Khalif. His name was David Jones. His life mattered.

Khalif stole the spotlight for several minutes. When officers of the Philadelphia Police arrived and moved to confront the activist, Mayor Jim Kenney intervened, shaking his head "no" and motioning them away, in a move that Khalif said he appreciated.

Thank God we have a mayor who took a stand today and told that pig to get out, said Khalif, after the mayor moved officers away.

During the impromptu rally, Isaac Gardner, who has been the lead organizer of Justice for David Jones rallies and who described himself as a representative of Jones family, took Khalifs bullhorn to lament the lack of information that the dead mans family has gotten since the 30-year-old Jones was killed by a police officer.

He was shot twice in the back. Hes dead now, said Gardner. Let the family know they arent alone in this.

After a few moments, the activists left, but not before announcing that they will hold a listening session on Thursday night, which plans to include members of the family of David Jones and a representative of the Department of Justice. That event will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 1414 S. Penn Sq.

After the men left the building, Mayor Kenney said that he appreciated the fact that we live in a country, and city, that supports a persons right to protest.

I think thats what makes this country what it is and what makes this city what it is, he said.

He also noted that the investigation into Jones death is ongoing.

A preliminary police report said a loaded 9mm was recovered from Jones. But one alleged witness to the shooting claims Jones was not armed when he fled, and that he had dropped the gun in the dirt near his feet before running. That account remains unconfirmed. The case is under review, and the department is not commenting on the shooting.

The activists continued to chant outside the library for several minutes before departing. Khalif described this event as the latest in a "week of rage," which has also seen Khalif and Gardner protest on Monday at the Managing Director's office and at the meeting of the Police Advisory Commission, as well as inside City Hall on Wednesday while candidates for interim district attorney were interviewed.

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Alicia Garza, one of the co-founders Black Lives Matter, tweeted Wednesday night in support of the Chicago Dyke Marchs decision to ask two Jewish LGBT women carrying Star of David flags to leave their march.

Shoutout to @DykeMarchChi for standing up for their principals when folks tried to take it over for their own agenda, Garza tweeted.

Garzas tweet drew critical responses from some quarters.

this makes me so damn sad, tweeted Talia Lavin, a food writer. im an earnest queer leftist who loves my jewish identity - i want to be able to display a magen david on my .

before or after they deleted their KKK esque tweet? responded Chloe Simone Valdary, a pro-Israel activist, referring to a tweet posted by the Chicago Dyke March that used an anti-Semitic epithet for Zionists popularized by David Duke.

Contact Ari Feldman at feldman@forward.com or on Twitter @aefeldman.

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