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Black Lives Matter wanted one thing but it backfired horribly

From the moment they came on the scene, Black LIES Matter had one goal in mind: anarchy. No matter what theyve tried to tell us, BLM isnt interested in unity and they certainly arent working to build trust with police officers. They want a total takedown of law and order and theyll use any means necessary to achieve that goal. However, their plans have backfired and even liberals are starting to take notice.

Instead of creating more dissonance between the American public and police, the latest polls show that respect for police has risen significantly despite Black LIES Matters best efforts.

Its an unintended consequence even a leftist outlet like Vox has noted:

Over the past few years, Black Lives Matter activists have prompted an unprecedented level of media and political scrutiny on questions related to police misconduct

Under the circumstances, many people may not be aware that 2016 was also a year in which Gallup found a huge surge in pro-police sentiment among the mass public.

BLM has certainly wreaked its fair share of havoc but their aggressive and violent outreach was rejected whenwe elected Donald Trump as the 45th president. Enough is enough. Black LIES Matter should change its slogan to, This is how you get more Trump.

A post at The American Interest makes the case that BLM has lost its footing as a legitimate Civil Rights organization because it deals in anger, not rationality:

Martin Luther King was sometimesan angry man, and with just cause, but we owe his lasting impact on American life to his wisdom rather than to his rage.

Unfortunately, the radical hate group responsible for burned cities and dead cops isnt interested in solving the black communitys ills, but they will do whatever it takes to exploit them.

With the 2016 election over, even the Democrat Party threw Black LIES Mattersoverboard thesupport for police has surged. Even Democrats realized slamming police was a loser with middle class white voters.

No longer needing their vote, Black LIES Matter has been kicked to the curb by liberals and replaced by refugees, white Womens March on Washington and illegal aliens. Talk about not getting any respect. Black LIES Matter may go down S one of the shortest political movements in US history. Even the Occupy Movement lasted longer.

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Black Lives Matter wanted one thing but it backfired horribly

Editorial: Do black lives matter in Richmond? – Richmond.com

Major crime hits five-year low in Richmond, ran a headline in this newspaper just 19 months ago. The story focused on the city, where violent and property crimes fell 10 percent and homicides dropped by 26 percent.

The citizens of Richmond should be proud, very proud, of their Police Department and the numbers that we have, the initiatives, and the positive interactions that we have with the members of the community, said Police Chief Alfred Durham then.

Mayor Dwight Jones agreed: I think its important for us and particularly the media to be able to say that we are bucking a national trend. We believe that the reason for this is we have a progressive police force, we have good leadership in the police force, that we have citizens who are helping our officers.

The feel-good story has turned into a horror movie. Regional killings soar past 100, reach highest level in decade, was the headline on Sundays front-page article by reporter Mark Bowes. The principal reason for that: bloodshed in the city. The region as a whole had 26 more homicides than last year. Richmond accounts for 25 of them. The city now has a homicide rate equal to Chicagos.

A lopsided majority of the victims were black. The same is true of the perpetrators. In a city where roughly every other resident is African-American just under nine out of 10 homicide victims were.

(By contrast, VCU criminologist William Pelfrey notes that Latino violence appears to be low relative to their numbers in the population. Therein lies a lesson for all those currently wetting their beds over a fictitious immigrant crime wave.)

Durham says the police department is overwhelmed from doing too many things that are not a proper part of policing, and he laments the lack of cooperation from neighbors and witnesses when a killing takes place. We trust his sincerity. But what happened? Less than two years ago the city was celebrating the relationship between cops and helpful citizens. What changed?

One possible explanation: The massive attention given to the killing of black males by police officers, which coalesced into the Black Lives Matter movement.

That attention was justified as anyone familiar with the cases of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Walter Scott and too many others to name can testify. The concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement are legitimate, and reactionaries should not use black-on-black crime to suggest otherwise.

At the same time, it might be possible to devote so much effort to one cause that other, equally important causes wither on the vine. Or bleed out in the street.

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Appalachian residents advocate for Black Lives Matter – The New Political

Another day, another protest. This time the topic of outrage is Black Lives Matter in Appalachia at the side portico of Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The evening was filled with personal accounts of racism, hope for the future and even an a capella performance.

The first speaker was Ada Woodson Adams, the widow of the first African-American graduate of Ohio University, Alvin C. Adams. She advocated for the continuance of the Black Lives Matter movement.

We chose to come back to our home where we were once chased away, Adams said.

Photo by Heather Willard

She continued to talk about the namesakes of her husband including Adams Hall and a scholarship from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and her lifetime of discrimination and activism.

In my lifetime I have been labeled colored, negro, African-American, Black American, person of color and more. I grew up in a racist and segregated world. I marched for civil rights in the 1960s in the south and walked in the white mans shoes all my life, Adams said.

Black Lives Matter is a shout out to look at a group that has been systematically and fundamentally disenfranchised in America. Anyone who says white lives matter, too are speaking from privilege.

Adams finished her speech with a raised fist and the iconic phrase Black Power.

Rev. Deborah Woolsey of the Church of the Good Shepherd spoke about her experience with being inspired by black people and how she quietly fights intolerance and supports anti-discriminatory businesses.

I let my money do the talking, Woosley explained.

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Sarah Garlington, an assistant professor at Ohio University and founder of the Athens chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) also spoke, and encouraged attendees to join the group to stay involved. Several others also gave speeches.

The evening was finished with a song performed by Megan Cameron, a singer in the local band called Amethystone, which has themes that echo those of the Black Lives Matter movement. History cannot be ignored. It shows us a pattern, she sang.

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Activists rally for #BlackLivesMatter on College Green – The Post

Ohio University students and Athens residents gathered in front of Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium to rally for racial justice in Appalachia, as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Caitlyn McDaniel, a 2015 OU alumna and Athens resident, organized the rally after she heard rumors about the Ku Klux Klan making a resurgence in southeast Ohio.

I felt angry, she said. Appalachia is rich in culture and diversity. Negotiating what it means to be Appalachian took many years to unpack, and I feel like its being corrupted. We will not bow down to racism and threats.

Speakers addressed the crowd of approximately 100 people on College Green and shared stories about racism in their lives. One of the speakers was Ada Adams, who was introduced asa descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a black slave from his home in Virginia.

I choose to label myself as a black woman, but my veins run with multicultural blood, Adams, a Nelsonville resident, said.

Adams recounted her story of leaving Athens after graduating from OU because she and her husband, Alvin C. Adams, could not find a job in the area as black people. Alvin Adams was the first black man to graduate from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in 1959. The two decided to move back to southeast Ohio after Adams Hall was named after Alvin.

Anyone who says white lives matter too is coming from a place of privilege, Adams said. They have not walked in my shoes.

Following a collection of speakers, Megan Cameron, a singer from the local band Amethystone, performed a song she wrote in November 2015 that has strong themes relating to the Black Lives Matter movement.

You think you know who I am based on who you see before you, she sang. History cannot be ignored. It shows us a pattern.

Cameron wrote the song as a call to action for white women to speak up for women of color.

Im used to performing, but I struggled because who am I, she said. I dont know what people of different cultures or races have gone through. It was important to sing though because white people need to have a voice and be part of the movement or else theyll just march in place.

Tom Riggs, a graduate program administrator for chemical and biomolecular engineering, came to the rally to support students and faculty of all races and cultures.

This was wonderful, he said. I came to make sure people know there are people here who know black lives matter indeed. This is another opportunity for people to show that were not going to sit idly and let people destroy what America is about.

McDaniel said she is proud to recognize multicultural students and citizens in the area.

There are so many people of color in Appalachia, but how often as a community do we celebrate that? she said.

Michael and Becca Lachman listen to speakers at a Black Lives Matter protest at Memorial Auditorium on Feb. 20, 2017.

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Black Lives Matter concerned over differing stories in North Charleston school bus brawl – ABC NEWS 4

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV)

A bus brawl is raising concerns with the local Black Lives Matter group. A video shows North Charleston High School students fighting and the chaos only grows when the police step in.

A teenage girl and five teenage boys were arrested Thursday, all charged with interfering with the operation of a school bus. Three of them are charged with assaulting an officer.

Police said they were called to break up a fight around 4:00 p.m. Thursday. The bus pulled off around Dobson Street and Remount Road.

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A video taken by a student shows portions of the incident, particularly the confrontation between a boy and two officers. It shows police struggling to restrain the boy moments before he was taken down and handcuffed. The boy shown is Vonshondas 15-year-old son. He is locked up at the juvenile detention center.

The first thing he says, mama I swear I did nothing, Vonshonda said.

On Friday, Vonshonda and the boys grandmother, Ann, said officers targeted the wrong student.

He was sitting in the front of the bus and he said he heard the kids with the commotion in the back and he brought it to the drivers attention to tell her they were back there fighting and thats when she called the police, Vonshonda said.

The police report said the situation escalated after some students fought each other, kicked the driver. Yelled profanities and then blocked officers from intervening. They said students grabbed them and ripped off their body cameras.

But Ann said she didnt see it that way. After seeing the video, she calls it abuse.

I was terrified, I was hurt, I was traumatized because the abuse that my grandson had to suffer, the cops kicking him in the groin and pulling him out of the seat, Ann said. It was really very upsetting to me.

Friday afternoon, the local Black Lives Matter group was protesting the incident and supporting the students families.

Ann said its a step back for them, but a learning lesson in more ways than one.

Our ministry is out there trying to teach the children that police are there to protect them, Ann said. But when something like this happens, you know, children have to mature, they have to grow in patience as well.

Three of the arrested students were released to their parents, but the others are expected in front of a judge on Tuesday.

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