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Black Lives Matter Leaders Sued Over Baton Rouge Police Shooting – Newsmax

A police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack.

The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.

It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.

McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that their movement promotes violence against police.

About 10 days after the Dallas shooting, a decorated ex-U.S. Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge, killing three officers.

Baton Rouge had been hit by waves of protests after two police officers earlier that month killed a black man, Alton Sterling, under questionable circumstances. The incident was caught on video and sparked national debate.

The officer wounded in Baton Rouge, who was not named in the lawsuit, was shot by "a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by 'BLACK LIVES MATTER'," the filing said.

Gavin Long, the black gunman who killed the Baton Rouge officers and was later shot dead, identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government, mostly white Sovereign Citizen Movement, documents showed. Last year, McKesson and two other activists sued the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during mostly peaceful protests over police killings.

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‘Black Lives Matter!’: Police Officer Attacked, Threatened At Traffic Stop – The Daily Caller

A man in Naples, Florida allegedly punched a deputyin the face at a traffic stop and yelled Black Lives Matter! when being taken to jail Wednesday.

The man, 34-year-old Anthony Denson Jr., was pulled over after a police officer saw he was driving without a seat belt, Naples Daily News reports.

After the deputy who pulled him over asked for a license and registration, a verbal argument broke out between Denson and the deputy.

Denson randomly accused the deputy of wanting to shoot him, and the deputy asked him to come out of the car. Denson refused, and the deputy threatened to use a taser if he didnt listen.

Denson then gotout of the car, but used that opportunity to punch the cop in the face. He was arrested.

Later, while being booked, he yelled Black Lives Matter! (RELATED:F**k The Police!: Black Lives Matter Activists Protest Shooting In Tulsa [VIDEO])

According to the Naples Daily News report, he is being charged with: obstructing an officer; battery of a law enforcement officer; threatening to do serious bodily harm to a public official; and driving while his license was suspended, second offense.

This attack comes after a statistics show that there has been a recent increase in attacks against police officers, especially ambush killings.

Some believe this could be due to a hostile atmosphere by police created due to movements like Black Lives Matter that often paint police officers as racist.

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‘War On Cops’ Author Blames Black Lives Matter Rhetoric For Attacks On Cops – The Daily Caller

The author of The War on Cops blamed the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter activists on the slew ofattacks on police officers.

In light of the Wednesdayassassination of a New York Police Department officer, Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald argued that the language of BLM protesters has helped fueled a hatred towards police officers.

Theres no question that the rhetoric is fueling this, Mac Donald said on the Dom Giordano Program. The statements that these cops killers have made are really echoed on daily basis by Black Lives Matter protesters. One of the chants in Chicago that you mentioned is CPD KKK how many kids did you kill today?'

Alexander Bonds, a black man with schizophrenia, fatally shot NYPD officer Miosotis Familia in the head while she sat in her squad car. Bonds, according to multiple reports, ranted about police officers in a Facebook video inSeptember 2016, calling them faggots.

Mac Donald pointed to Black Lives Matter as the starting point for such rhetoric, which invariably leads to police officers being targeted.

People have been fed the lie for the last three years by the Black Lives Matter activists and their media and political enablers that were living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings of black men, aclaimthat is 100 percent false and, we shouldnt be surprised that kooks and people that have been fed a longstanding hatred of the police act on this, Mac Donald continued. The numbers bear this out. The cops are under attack because of this ideologically fueled and completely unjustified hatred.

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Engage young adults, support Black Lives Matter, bishops told – National Catholic Reporter

Orlando, Fla.

A standing-room-only crowd of young black Catholics in a frank session that lasted more than two hours told bishops, priests and women religious why they stay in the church, what threatens to drive them away and that they want a stronger voice from church officials for the Black Lives Matter movement.

As the National Black Catholic Congress got underway in Orlando July 6 with more than 2,000 attendees, some 120 participants discussed ways to keep young adult black Catholics engaged in their parishes and the church and raised criticism of, and an apology for, the church's silence regarding the movement spawned by the killings of unarmed blacks by police. Among the bishops attending Congress XII was Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Discussion centered on key themes:

"How do we respond as people of faith to issues of race that have always been going on in society but especially in light of the Black Lives Matter movement? And in a lot of the police killings, a lot of people feel that the church has been almost silent in its response," Stacy Allen, one of the facilitators, said toward the end of the session.

"The church is very vocal on a myriad of issues -- immigration for instance -- which are important," Allen said. "But specifically on the issues of race, especially from the perspective of a young adult black Catholic, what should the Catholic response be?"

That prompted Auxiliary Bishop Fernand Cheri III of New Orleans to stand. With a bow to those in the room, he said, "To the black youth, I apologize to you as a leader of the church because I feel we have abandoned you in the Black Lives Matter movement and I apologize.

"Partly, I didn't understand it, and by the time I did understand it, it was too late the moment was gone," he said. "I'm very proud of you you stood up and said enough is enough. As a leader, I want to say that to you thank you."

He then went on to tell of challenges in his own journey as a priest and a bishop, his outreach to bring young people, and starting choirs in parishes. "You're going to struggle and you're going to persevere," he said.

He counseled that young black adults reach out to each other and others within their parishes and church communities.

"No one knows how to best minister to you as young people we're all learning this together," he said. "One of the reasons we have faltered when it comes to vocations from our community because when it comes to being church, we just don't have the community working at it together and that's the failure."

Many at the session spoke of the need to address a lack of programs for young adults and meaningful engagement and leadership opportunities within parishes and the larger church. Young adults want more than to be tapped to set up tables, take out trash, run kids' programs and generally do things that older parishioners don't want to do, participants said.

Too many parishes have youth programs that end at high school and nothing for those who come back after college with talents and skills and a willingness to get involved, participants said. It's particularly difficult for young black Catholics not in large metropolitan areas like Chicago, Atlanta or Washington with black churches.

"People leave because there's just no community," said one young woman from Lansing, Michigan.

While a participant from New Orleans said the reason she stays Catholic is the strength of her parish community, she has encountered resistance in other parishes. "One reason young adults are leaving is that sometimes it feels like the church does not want us," she said.

She says she's tried to volunteer and has been told "no because of age, or no because they don't say it, but because I'm a young adult, and they think I'm too young to know about that, or no because that's 'too black' and that might be fine for your church in New Orleans but not here," she said.

The rejection is like "asking for a hug and someone is crossing their arms," she said, recounting how she and a young Asian woman were "shut down" in a parish in San Francisco when trying to introduce new programs. "That's why people leave, because they don't feel wanted. And if you don't feel wanted, you leave."

Applause, laughter and murmurs of recognition swept through the room as participants from New York, California, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere shared their experiences and ideas.

"We as young adults don't want programs, we want a relationship," said a participant. "We don't want things to do we have enough to do. We want a place to belong. Successful young adult ministries are where they feel invested to make change within their parishes."

One mistake is to mix up "youth" programs with "young adult" programs without recognizing the huge differences between them, some participants noted. One mentioned having a young adult "meet and greet" to get ideas for programs they want and then implementing them.

Another mentioned having eucharistic adoration on Monday evenings rather than Fridays to not interfere with happy hour. One priest mentioned having the sacrament of reconciliation available on Sundays when people are already at church.

Participants from Nigeria and other African nations shared their experiences of encountering cultural differences assimilating into U.S. parishes, the lack of welcome, and some of the strong communal faith traditions they know from their homelands.

"You feel like you don't belong," said one participant. "It is hard as an African to belong to the Catholic Church in the United States."

Programs focused on prayer and spiritual, not just social, needs are important, participants said.

In an interview afterward, Allen, who is from the Galveston-Houston Diocese, expanded on the issue of race relations and the lack of support for the Black Lives Matter movement by the church.

"It's been painful that a faith that I love so much and I dedicate quite a lot of time to feels like it hasn't seen my own humanity, hasn't seen my own pain," said Allen, who is an attorney and serves in her parish counsel, youth ministry and catechism programs.

"As someone who mentors young people too, I see those stories and I worry about if they're going to be the next hashtag. So with something so dominating the news cycle, and I think the American psyche, for our church to be so silent it just questions whether people like me even matter if we are even seen within the faith and if we belong," Allen said.

"Because of my faith and the holy Eucharist, there's no way I am going to leave, but I wish that the church would on a national level create a think tank or a group that really tries to address black Catholics in the church and what is our space."

Cheri in an interview said bishops haven't been more supportive because they haven't really understood the Black Lives Matter movement, relying more on media reports than talking with black people within their dioceses.

"One of the primary teachings of the church is the value of human life and human dignity, and if Black Lives Matter is not a matter of human dignity, something is wrong," he said.

"We [bishops] speak out for many things and we stand for many things and I think we stand for life. I'm not saying I'm against police it's not a question of that, it's not a question of for and against. It's about life at all levels and all times," he said.

The National Black Catholic Congress, held every five years, continues through Sunday morning, July 9.

[Gail DeGeorge is editor of Global Sisters Report.]

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Author: Black Lives Matter Activists Motivate Police Shootings – CBS Philly

July 6, 2017 6:58 PM By Dom Giordano

Philadelphia (CBS) Heather Mac Donald, from the Manhattan Institute and the author of the book,The War On Cops, blames Black Lives Matter protesters and activists for the killing of police officers, like the shooting that occurred this week resulting in the death of Officer Miosotis Familia in New York City, telling Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT that protests encourage violent criminals to act out.

People have been fed the lie for the last three years by the Black Lives Matter activists and their media and political enablers that were living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings of black men, a claim that is 100 percent false and, we shouldnt be surprised that kooks and people that have been fed a longstanding hatred of the police act on this. The numbers bear this out. The cops are under attack because of this ideologically fueled and completely unjustified hatred.

She discounted incidents of police shootings that have elicited outrage around the country, saying they are statistically insignificant compared to the number of police killed in black communities.

A police officer is 18 and a half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. The percentage of people that are shot by cops is trivial and it is overwhelmingly predicted by violent crime rates. Blacks are shot at a much lower rate than their violent crime rate would predict.

Mac Donald contends that police will stop doing their jobs if Black Lives Matter and similar groups continue to stage protests and demonstrations.

Its a lot easier to blame the police than to take responsibility for your own community. Were living in a real life experiment here, which is de-policing. Black Lives Matter activists actually say they want the cops out. Well, ok, policing is political and if cops get the message enough times that they are racist for getting out of their car at 1AM and making that stop with somebody whos hitching up his waistband as if he has a gun, theyre not going to do it. They dont have to. Thats a discretionary activity and were seeing what happens when cops back off.

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