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A new survey conducted by Aizman Law Firm anonymously asked 200 police officers across the nation about race relations and policing, and found that 87 percent of those surveyed harbored negative feelings toward the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

The Aizman survey, Blue Voices on Black Lives Matter, states:

When asked what they hoped the outcome of the movement would be, nearly 60 percent said that police brutality and racism arent real problems or the whole thing is overblown.

Another 11 percent said theyd like to see officers trained more on racial issues and how to de-escalate situations peacefully, and only 8 percent hoped that the department would connect with the black community and BLM.

However, the survey also found that while many officers felt negatively about BLM, few felt that race played a factor in their own feelings of safety:

[M]ore than 10 percent said that they fear for their lives on a daily basis.

Of those groups, the significant majority claimed that race doesnt factor into their feelings of safety, while a smaller group said they felt safer with a white individual. Almost no officers said they felt safer with a black individual.

Past studies have found evidence of racial biases in policingmost recently, for example, a Harvard study based on collected data concluded that [e]ven when the police said that civilians were compliant, blacks experienced more force.

The Aizman survey comes as many Americans are expressing concern over the future of policing in America, as President Trump has promised to be tough on crime in inner citiesa message often charged with racial stereotypes.

Others believe Trumps administration has shown outright opposition to BLM. But insofar as the Obama administration was an ally to Black Lives Matterand it was, if only through the Justice Departments series of scathing reports on systemic racism and misconduct in police departments in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore and ChicagoTrump has now promised, in his official capacity as the 45th president of the United States, to be its enemy, Slates Leon Neyfakh wrote in late January.

BLM has begun to mobilize in response to the new administration. Brandon Ellington Patterson of Mother Jones wrote last week:

In the wake of Trumps immigration order, BLM organizers mobilized their networks to turn out at airports to protest. The groups also fired up their social media networks to amplify calls for the release of detained travelers. BLM leaders say their strategy will evolve as more details become known about what Trump plans to do on matters ranging from policing and reproductive rights to climate change and LGBT issues. They will focus on combating what they see as Trumps hostile, retrograde agendaand that of right-wing politicians emboldened by Trumpprimarily at the state and local levels.

Since taking office, Trump has signed executive orders reinforcing his commitment to fight crime, gangs, and drugs; restore law and order; and support the dedicated men and women of law enforcement.

John Raphling of The Hill notes, however, that the vague language of the order and related policy statements from the Trump administration feel ominous because of what the president hasnt saidthat the federal government also has an important role to play in helping to ensure that police departments are accountable.

And even police officers themselves are expressing doubts about Trumps stance on law enforcement. The New York Times reports:

We need not use arrest, conviction and prison as the default response for every broken law, Ronal W. Serpas, a former police chief in Nashville and New Orleans, and David O. Brown, a former Dallas chief, wrote in a report released last week by a leading law enforcement group. For many nonviolent and first-time offenders, prison is not only unnecessary from a public safety standpoint, it also endangers our communities.

The group warned that failing to direct these resources toward our most immediate and dangerous threats risks wasting taxpayer dollars, singling out using federal money on dragnet enforcement of lower-level offenses.

Trumps opinions toward BLM and policing are unlikely to help the dissonance that the Blue Voices on Black Lives Matter survey uncovered.

In stark contrast with their earlier statements that race doesnt matter, however, 26 percent of officers said that they believe black people are more likely to be up to no good, the Aizman survey concludes, and 11 percent said that officers are more likely to stop, search, or react violently toward black individuals.

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(AllHipHop Rumors) You know Meek Mill tries to speak up and throw his two cents in on social and political issues every now and then.

Following the shooting death of 11-year-old Takiya Holmes and a few others in Chicago this week, Meek Mill is now calling for the Black Lives Matter organization to additionally expand their focus to the black on black violence, senseless violence, and the warzone that is Chiraq aka Chicago.

Meek took to Instagram to share his thoughts,

I think its about time for black lives matter focus on Chicago its a lot of kids dying out there and we putting all our focus on cops! RIP BABY GIRL, ONE OF 3 little kids killed this week! CNN not covering this news!

Apparently 19-year-old Antwan Jones opened fire after seeing three rival gang members selling drugs nearby. Takiya was sitting in a nearby van and was struck in her right temple.

Kanari Bowers, 12, was shot in the head by a stray bullet about 30 minutes before Takiya was shot in the West Englewood neighborhood, and the murder of 2-year-old Lavontay White Jr. was captured on Facebook Live.

This sh-t is out of control in Chicago, and it has been for a while. Does Meek Mill have a valid point?

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In a private Facebook post from 2015 obtained by theToronto Sun, Khogali said that white ppl are recessive genetic defects. this is factual.

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White ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to, she continued.

Khogali bases her theory on the idea that white people have a higher concentration of enzyme inhibitors that suppress melanin production.

She argues that melanin is linked to high levels of fertility, strong bones, and the strength of the nervous system, making black people the first and strongest of all humans, whose genetics are the foundation of all humanity.

Last April, Khogali posted a tweet asking Allah to stop her from killing men and white folks, which she later deleted.

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Canadian Black Lives Matter Leader Says White People Have ... - Breitbart News

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Have you seen it?

According to the laws of physics and the principles of nature, nothing disappears into thin air, so it must be around here somewhere. It was too big and loud to fall between the couch cushions or hide in the closet, so someone must have stolen it. Someone must have found a way to silence it. I know there were a lot of people who wished it would evaporate into the ether or slowly fizzle out, but Im sure it cant be all gone.

What happened to Black Lives Matter?

Barely a year ago, #BlackLivesMatter was on the tip of almost every tongue in the country. It caused such a commotion that America had no choice but to take notice. Whether they supported it or hated it, everyone had an opinion of it. It led the evening news. It popped up in every social media feed. They argued about it on SportsCenter. Have you seen it lately? I know it hasnt gone anywhere.

Dont reduce its existence to a simple hashtag, because it was more than that. It was a living, breathing thing. Ive seen it with my own eyes. I saw it at football games kneeling during the national anthem. I saw it change the entire municipal structure of the city of Ferguson, Mo. I watched it strut onstage at halftime of the Super Bowl. It strong-armed police departments into buying body cameras. It showed up at presidential debates and awards shows. It fueled conversations in every corner of the country about how America treated black bodies.

But lately, my friends dont talk about it as much. Is it dead? Is it asleep? Have we lost interest? Why is it so quiet? Where did it go?

Maybe it was the propaganda.

As soon as the movement began, there also arose a pushback from people on the other side. They ignored the statistics and reminded us to stop resisting. They tried to transform conversations about police brutality into distracting discussions about black-on-black crime. They ginned up fear with slick-talking police-union lawyers and iron-fisted governors. They convinced juries that trying to breathe while being choked to death was resisting, and grabbing a gun to chase down a teenager with Skittles in his pocket was standing your ground.

Perhaps it is hiding because of how they demonized it.

They fooled white America that Black Lives Matter was a hate group, just as they convinced it that the civil rights movement was fueled by communism. They successfully brainwashed the country into believing that BLM was anti-cop, even when one of the movements founders said it wasnt. They branded it as violent because burning and looting broke out during some demonstrations, like the violence that broke out during the inauguration, after the World Series or during Donald Trump rallies. Both the people who disparage Black Lives Matter and those reluctant to jump on board should remember one important fact:

There has never been a black movement in the history of America that white people found acceptable. Not the abolitionist movement. Not the black power movement. Not even the civil rights movement. Their egos and sense of privilege make them want to stomp out anything that doesnt include or directly benefit them. Thats why they want to replace the name with All Lives Matter. Because of their innate subconscious supremacy, they cant fathom that Black Lives Matter doesnt mean only black lives matter, or black lives matter more. They cant fathom the idea that it has nothing to do with (or against) them. That it is a simple, uncomplicated affirmation to ourselves and a reminder to the world.

Black lives matter.

Just matter.

Maybe the politicians killed it.

Theyre making protests illegal now. Lawmakers in Minnesota are advancing a bill that would make protesters pay for policing. The state of North Dakota wants to make it OK (you might not believe this) for drivers to run over protesters with their cars. But the state of Washington has the best one: They want to increase the penalty for protesting by rebranding it as economic terrorism. They seem to be trolling BLM when states like Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and even California have passed or are considering Blue Lives Matter bills that make attacks on police a hate crime.

Oh, wait. I know what happened to Black Lives Matter.

We still have the same sentiments, but our attention spans are too short to box with the white revolution-crushing gods. Even though 29 black men have already been killed by police this year. Even though our esteemed Velveeta president signed three law and order executive orders protecting police. Even though our new attorney general has a history of anti-black racism and opposes almost every move by the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division.

We dropped #BlackLivesMatter when internet sites and cable news shows stopped splashing pornographic images of dead black boys and replaced them with stories of pussy grabbing and immigrant bans. We watered it down by believing that changing profile pictures or speaking out on Twitter was actual resistance. We muted it because we were with her who once said superpredator.

We were distracted by being outraged at a neon-orange douchebag in a hairpiece. Our arms were tired from raising our fists. Our throats were sore. We had already Instagrammed selfies from the protest front lines. We had already bought the T-shirts. We had already used the hashtag.

The issues that Black Lives Matter brought to the forefront of Americas consciousness havent gone anywhere. Maybe the clamor in the nations ears has a different tone. Perhaps it was drowned out by the voices of the people who are unmoved by dead black 12-year-olds, but wholl clog airport lobbies for every other shade of brown. Maybe it was too hard to hear when your ears were covered by the flaps of your pink pussy hat as the crowd screamed (ironically) about white men controlling their bodies. It may have been deflated by the sharp end of a safety pin. It doesnt fight anymore; it resists. Velveeta orange is the new black, and it is so distracting that we damn near forgot about ourselves.

Thats what happened to Black Lives Matter.

Us.

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Whatever Happened to Black Lives Matter? - The Root

Sometimes radical racists go off-script.

Yusra Khogali of the Toronto, Canada branch of Black Lives Matter wrote on what appears to be her Facebook page that white people are recessive genetic defects and wondered how whites could be wiped out.

The creatively spelled statement starts Whiteness is not humxness. According to the Toronto Sun, it continues, infact, white skin is sub-humxn.

White ppl are recessive genetic defects. this is factual, reads the post. [W]hite ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to.

In 2016 Khogali tweeted, Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.

The report comes a fortnight after a Black Lives Matter supporter in Seattle issued a profanity-rich call to start killing people including President Trump. The unidentified speaker also ranted against white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and anti-blackness, dropping the F-bomb 55 times in the tirade.

At the time, I wrote that the speaker wasnt representative of all Black Lives Matter supporters.

Perhaps I wrong.

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