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By Katie Mitchell

After fours years of rapid national expansion, the future of the Black Lives Matter movement is uncertain. The 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump and the concurrent Republican sweep of Congress radically transformed the national political landscape. And for advocacy organizations like the Black Lives Matter Network, the prospect of garnering nationwide policy change has plummeted.

In the first half of this year, the organization has spent much time recoiling from this conservative revolution. Both the Washington Post and BuzzFeed have reported a slowdown in BLM street protests. And in a recent NPR interview, Black Lives Matter network co-founder, Patrisse Khan-Cullors referred to the movements national prospects as devastating.

However last week, on its fourth anniversary, the BLM Network took account of the movements victories to date and articulated a robust new game plan for operating in Trumps America moving forward. In the 55 page report, organizers sketched out how a localized, intersectional agenda can keep the movements momentum going during this time of political uncertainty.

Our dissent, demonstrations, demands, and tireless fight for dignity have revealed a ubiquitous white rage, resentment, and revenge, Shanelle Matthews, Director of Communications for the Black Lives Matter Global Network said in the written statement referring to the nations rise in popular xenophobia and racism. Coupled with economic insecurity and a rise in global conservatism, we are living in a more precarious political landscape than we were just one presidential election ago.

Despite that, our mandate has not changed, Matthews continued. Organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.

Beyond Matthews resolute call to continue organizing, her emphasis on advocating for all black lives is an important distinction. As the movement has blossomed in recent years, leaders have combatted the common tendency to only rally around male, cisgender victims of police brutality and elevate cisgender male voices in protest leadership roles. Rather, BLM has prioritized centering women and trans people in both leadership roles and advocacy.

As organizers who work with everyday people, BLM members see and understand significant gaps in movement spaces and leadership. A network spokesperson said in the anniversary report. Black liberation movements in this country have created room, space, and leadership mostly for Black heterosexual, cisgender menleaving women, queer and transgender people, and others either out of the movement or in the background to move the work forward with little or no recognition.

As a network, we have always recognized the need to center the leadership of women and queer and trans people, the report explained.

Political scientist note just how sharply this focus on centering the most marginalized communities and amplifying their voices sharply contrasts from traditional civil rights advocacy groups operating principles.

Placing police brutality into a wider web of inequality has largely been missing from the more narrowly crafted agendas of the liberal establishment organizations, like [Rev. Al] Sharptons National Action Network (NAN), which have focused more on resolving the details of particular cases than on generalizing about the systemic nature of police violence, Princeton University Professor of African-American Studies Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes in From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.

Taylor explains this means that the legacy civil rights organizations usually concentrate on legal approaches to addressing police brutality, whereas this generation of activist connects police oppression with other social issues.

In the BLM Network four-year report, writers highlight both the strategic and social value of addressing the interwoven web ofcrises such as transphobia, sexism, poverty, and structural racism.

In addition to continuing to cultivate diverse coalition across identities, BLM activists are doubling down on the local, grassroots tactics in light of the Trump Administration. Given that the Trump White House has articulated a staunchly adversarial stance towards Black Lives Matter, organizers are looking to local state legislators and city councils to achieve the policy changes that they seek.

The local is where the work is, Cullorssaid in an interview with NPR. if you zoom in to cities, to towns, to rural areas, people are fighting back, and people are winning.

The organizers who authored the report have confidence that this combined strategy of intersectional and local organizing will be a successful formula.

Despite all that we are up against given this new political landscape, we are uniquely positioned to build substantial power for Black people in 2017. Shanelle Matthews wrote in the report. We know this because we have been here before, and we have the wisdom of elders and the wherewithal to listen and strategize accordingly.

The work will be harder, Matthews wrote, but the work is the same.

Author Bio: Katie is a public health professional, focusing on health communication and programming. Shes most passionate about eliminating the health disparities that negatively impact Black mothers and their children. She enjoys reading, devouring chocolate chip cookies, and pretending to be from Atlanta. Shes on theTwitterand not much else.

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A sign in south Minneapolis, where a woman was killed Saturday night by a police officer, reads "Why did you shoot and kill our neighbor and friend?" Doualy Xaykaothao/MPR News hide caption

A sign in south Minneapolis, where a woman was killed Saturday night by a police officer, reads "Why did you shoot and kill our neighbor and friend?"

A woman died after being shot by a Minneapolis police officer late Saturday night, according to the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Her identity has not been released by authorities, but her fianc Don Damond identified her to MPR as Justine Ruszczyk, an Australian woman who taught yoga and meditation.

Around 11:30 p.m. CT Saturday, two Minneapolis police officers responded to a 911 call of a possible assault in south Minneapolis. One officer shot and killed the woman.

According to the bureau, the two officers did not have their body cameras turned on, nor did the squad camera record the fatal shooting.

Late Sunday afternoon, Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and Assistant Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said they had few other details to share.

Arradondo said following the 911 call, officers were dispatched on an "unknown trouble" call. He said officers arrived at the address and when it became a shooting he alerted the BCA, which now leads the investigation.

The Hennepin county Medical Examiner's Office is conducting an autopsy.

Both Hodges and Arradondo said they are not releasing the victim's name and said that information will later come from the BCA.

But at a gathering Saturday night, friends and neighbors said the victim taught yoga and meditation in the community.

At a healing circle in front of the crime scene, those neighbors and close friends, as well as Black Lives Matter activists and members of Womens March Minnesota, held hands, and talked about the deceased woman, naming her simply as "Justine."

"Peace flowed through her," said neighbor Melinda Barry. "She was a lovely, lovely person. And we want to remember Justine tonight, and call for answers, but we want just to remember and respect Justine, tonight, and her family, and share our love for her family, and how much we want to wrap our support around them."

Nancy Coune and Cindi Claypatch said they knew her well from their involvement at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community Center in South Minneapolis.

"If you could just see her, she was adorable with this incredible smile," said Coune.

"You know, it's like when you're in the presence of a room with somebody who's in a nice feeling, you rise whether they open their mouth or not ... she was really shiny, she was very bright," added Claypatch.

Eduardo Drake is also part of the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community Center. He brought flowers and wrote a message in chalk for his friend.

"Justine was all about love, just bringing your biggest heart forward, no matter what you're doing in life," said Drake. "Her loss, for me, is just a personal reminder that we shouldn't waste time on petty gripes or complaints, we should just find a way to love, bigger and better, because we don't know when the people we care about may not be there anymore."

Friends and community members say they want to know the names of the two officers involved in the shooting, and also want transparency as the investigation continues.

Mayor Betsy Hodges said it's "difficult and challenging" to have few facts at this point.

She called the southwest Minneapolis neighborhood where the shooting happened "tightknit." She represented the area when she served on the city council.

Earlier Sunday in a statement Hodges said, "my understanding, from the BCA's initial statement, is that the officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time of the incident and the squad camera did not capture the incident. I intend to learn more."

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WASHINGTON A Baton Rouge police officer left permanently disabled after a black separatist killed three policemen and injured three more in a shootout is now suing Black Lives Matter for inciting violence across the United States, and one author thinks this may be the lawsuit that puts to an end the violent BLM movement.

The suit, filed by an anonymous victim of the gunmans deadly ambush on police, names Deray Mckesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants.

Mckesson, who has met with former President Obama in the White House, is a prominent organizer for Black Lives Matter.

Gavin Long, a 29-year-old Marine, targeted police outside a convenience store near the Baton Rouge police headquarters in July 2016, opening fire with a semi-automatic rifle. He was killed after a shootout with police.

Anyone who remembers how the Southern Poverty Law Center made its bones will rejoice at the news of this lawsuit, Colin Flaherty, author of White Girl Bleed A Lot, told WND.

The SPLC sued the [Klu Klux Klan] and won a large judgment because it convinced a jury that the Klan was fomenting violence around the country. Whatever the Klan did, however the Klan did it, it is plain to see that Black Lives Matter encourages the same violence with two big differences: 1) People actually listened to BLM. 2) There was tons and tons of violence associated with BLM activities all over the country.

Flaherty added both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supported BLM or used BLM talking points during the 2016 election.

And they were not hiding anything: Just the opposite, violence against police was one of their major themes, Flaherty said. They called it self-defense, and they were successful in convincing a large number of their members that attacking police was just fine because it was self-defense or retribution.

Flaherty, who has extensively studied and documented the violence committed by BLM, believes the damage from BLM riots is beyond calculation.

In Baltimore, more than 60 business owners are filing the same kind of suit against the city, saying the city encouraged then allowed large-scale black mob violence against their business, Flaherty said, adding, I would love to sit on this jury.

Long had said he wanted to bring the same destruction that bad cops continue to inflict upon my people, upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together to enact justice and punishment against bad cops.

Before the attack, Long searched online for the addresses of police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man killed by police outside a store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Sterlings death fueled Black Lives Matter protests across the country, and led to a local protest in Baton Rouge that saw nearly 200 people arrested.

The recently filed lawsuit notes that DeRay Mckesson was in charge of the Baton Rouge protests, and reports that the protest turned into a riot.

Rather than work to calm the crowd, Mckesson allegedly incited the protesters to riot and commit violence, the suit claims.

The suit further claims that Black Live Matters leaders encourage violence against police generally, especially in retaliation for the death of black men killed by police.

Im very intrigued by this lawsuit and anxious to see how the courts rule on it, said Jeff Roorda, a retired police officer and a four-term Missouri state representative who currently works for the St. Louis Police Officers Association. We have a balancing test in the courts in this country that weighs the importance of free speech against the recklessness of dishonest, dangerous words.

Itll be interesting to see if the court holds BLM and its leaders to the same standards that the rest of we Americans are held to.

Before Longs shooting in Baton Rouge, Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers and injured nine others in another allegedly Black Lives Matter-inspired attack in Dallas, Texas.

Johnson claimed he was angry over police killings of black men and stated he wanted to kill white people, namely white police officers, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

Barack Obama claimed at the time that it was very hard to untangle the motives surrounding the Dallas attack.

The so-called random violence against police officers in Dallas, Baton Rouge, and so many other places isnt random at all, Roorda, author of The War on Police: How the Ferguson Effect is Making America Unsafe, told WND. This hate-inspired violence based on the hands-up, dont shoot lie has to stop.

Johnsons social media included an image with the slogan Black Power, and he had expressed interest in the Facebook page of the New Black Panther Party, the Washington Post reports.

The plaintiff in the case is reportedly a 42-year-old father of two and an 18-year veteran of law enforcement.

The plaintiff was left with brain damage after being shot by Long, and only recently emerged from a vegetative state.

The suit asks for at least $75,000 in damages.

This is the second lawsuit filed against Mckesson by a Baton Rouge police officer.

A previously filed lawsuit claims that Mckesson was responsible for injuries sustained by police during the Baton Rouge protests. A federal judge has yet to rule on whether the lawsuit will move forward.

Mckesson himself was arrested during the Alton Sterling protests, but charges were never brought against him.

The truth is that cops are getting shot and killed by the same criminals who are committing the black-on-black violence that plagues our inner cities, Roorda believes.

Lets stop pretending that those who turn violence against the protectors of our most vulnerable are some sort of martyrs. Theyre not. Theyre just murderers.

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Dana Loesch had liberals curling up in the fetal position when she urged her fellow conservatives to "fight this violence of lies [referring to media bias and the Lefts prime choice of protest] with the clenched fist of truth in an ad for the NRA. *Gasp.*

Ironically, Loesch, who was condemning violence and hateful, divisive rhetoric, was accused of inciting violence and declaring civil war.

On Wednesday, members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Lives Matter Movement - and their allies, including Dignity and Power Now, The Reverence Project, RISIST, and Defend Movement - decided to join in on the Loesch-bashing fun and released their own video in response to the NRAs aggressive, fear-mongering video tactics.

In the video, a member from the LA Chapter is seen calling the NRAs ads dangerous propaganda that emboldens gun-toting racists.

We will continue to produce media, teach students, march and protest to not only protect the First Amendment as fiercely as the NRA protects the Second, but to protect our lives from gun-toting racists, she declares.

Of course, liberals only want protect the First Amendment rights of those who share their opinions and fight for their cause. Anyone who disagrees with them or says something they dont like should automatically be silenced, hence why the videos narrator goes on to demand the NRA immediately remove its (constitutionally protected) ads.

Thankfully, NRA TVs Colion Noir wasnt about to let BLM get away with peddling these absurd claims about the Second Amendments rights organization.

In an episode of Commentators, Noir first calls out BLM for losing sight of its original mission and turning into a weaponized, race-baiting machine, pushing the extreme liberal-Democratic agenda, calling everything and anything that doesnt fit their agenda white supremacy.

He then goes on to dispel the notion that the NRAs members are all a bunch of racists and lists the (many, many) things the organization has done for the black community and black gun owners: Say what you want about the NRA, but its done more for black gun rights and the image of black gun owners in this country than the bought and paid-for Black Lives Matter ever has.

Noir, who himself is a gun-owner and NRA member, notes that, you don't get asked what race you are when you join the NRA, there wasnt a whites only sign at the annual convention. There are no secrets here.

The NRA isnt the one telling me I shouldn't be owning guns because Im black. White, liberal politicians are," he adds.

At the end of the video, Noir offers some friendly advice for the Black Lives Matter Movement before signing off.

Oh, by the way," he says, speaking directly to BLM activists, "next time you make a video declaring you fiercely defend the First Amendment the way the NRA defends the Second, you might not want to immediately demand that they delete a video protected by their First Amendment right, just because you dont like it."

"You kind of look like a hypocrite," he concludes.

Nailed it.

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NRA-TV host Colion Noir blasted Black Lives Matter and liberal Democrats who support the organization in a scathing ad that also defended a recent NRA video spot from TheBlaze TVs Dana Loesch.

Noir said Black Lives Matter as evidenced by an ad it released this week against the NRA and Loesch has become nothing more than a weaponized race-baiting machine, pushing the extreme liberal Democratic agenda, calling any and everything that doesnt fit that agenda white supremacy.'

Noir took on a number of other NRA opponents during his compelling 12-minute video response, along with widespread lies about the group. And first among them was the notion among the left that Loeschs ad amounted to the NRA declaring war against black people.

But Noir shot that down.

He said he watched Loeschs NRA spot over and over and over again and had a hard time seeing where this NRA ad called for violence against anyone, much less against black people. If anything the video was calling for fighting violence with truth. Hell, I saw more white people looting and being destructive in the NRA ad than I ever saw watching a Black Lives Matter protest on liberal cable news shows like CNN.

Then he hit back at the Black Lives Matter response ad with a scathing dose of reality:

According to this Black Lives Matter video, apparently the only people capable of racism against black people are white conservatives. Yet the egregiously poor state of our black communities have come under the leadership of the same liberal politicians, liberal organizations and liberal billionaires of the last 50 years. And our inner-city communities are still in disrepair.

Noir discusses poor education and poverty in the black community, declaring that the NRA has nothing to do with advancing such problems but he does call out others.

Noting how difficult it is for many black kids to attend better schools, Noir says their families cant afford to live in such communities because theyre living on a single income of a household headed by a single black mother. The question then becomes: What happened to the fathers?

He also lays direct blame for issues in black communities at the feet of the political left:

For decades our communities have been run by deceitful liberals and Democrats who promised us the stars and the moon during election cycles and disappeared once in office. The tactics are always the same. Buy off well-meaning black leaders and black organizations like Black Lives Matter with insane amounts of cash so theyre incentivized to sell out and push their liberal Democratic agenda under the guise of improving the community by advocating the same, racist laws and policies that continue to perpetuate the horrible conditions in our communities to begin with.

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