blue lives matter
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Blue Lives Only Matter When They Are Killing Black People
The headline for this story is really the gotdamn point. Always. Every time a Black person has been killed extrajudicially by a police officer, the Blue Lives Matter crew comes out in full force to defend policing, which in and of itself is a power structure built and steeped in racism and white supremacy. You…
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Delta Stands in Solidarity With Black Passenger After She Was Harassed on Flight by a Blue Lives Karen
A Black woman harassed by a white passenger on her Delta flight to Washington, D.C., last week is singing the airline’s praises after it upgraded her flight in response. Demetria Poe, 25, was flying from Minneapolis to D.C. on Thursday to attend the Commitment March, held last Friday on the anniversary of the 1963 March…
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Black Church Bamboozled Into Hosting Blue Lives MAGA Rally Complete With Confederate Flags, Trump Signs
Parishioners at a Texas church were shocked to discover their parking lot filled with crimson-necked, pickup-truck-driving, Confederate flag-waving MAGA cyclists who had hoodwinked the house of worship into hosting a Blue Lives Matter rally on Communion Sunday. Friendship-West Baptist Church (no relation to Kanye) in Dallas is not just a place where saints and sinners…
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'Oppressors, Not Protectors': The Cast of Queen & Slim Reflect on Policing
As Solange once crooned, “this shit is for us.” At the time of this article’s posting, I’ve seen Queen & Slim three times and I have no doubt this film was primarily created for us. Still, like any movie, you want as many eyes on it as possible, so I had to give writer Lena…
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Oregon County to Pay Black Employee $100k Over 'Blue Lives Matter' Flag
Karimah Guion-Pledgure had been an employee of Multnomah County, Ore. since 2011 when her employer put up a “Blue Lives Matter” flag in the workplace in 2017. According to CNN, the county is about to pay for it. In September of 2017, a probation officer at Guion-Pledgure’s workplace hung the flag above his desk, and…
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Racists Target an Asian-American Family for Supporting Black Lives Matter
An Asian-American family in San Francisco was targeted with racist letters this summer for posting a “Black Lives Matter” sign in the window of their home. Because of the threats and racial slur used, the harassing letters are being investigated by the police as hate crimes. But the letters have only strengthened the family’s resolve…
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Dear NYC Police Union: Blue Is Not a People, Blue Is Not a Race … Unless Y’all Smurfs
Y’all, please come get the Sergeants Benevolent Association, please, because I do believe someone in public relations has lost his damn mind. On Sunday night, the New York City Police Department union released a video claiming that cops are the victims of “blue racism,” and face worse prejudice than those who are judged by their…
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NY Seeks to Make Killing Cops a Hate Crime but Is Still Cool With Cops Killing Black People
The New York State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would increase the penalties for killing first responders by making doing so a hate crime. In New York, whenever anyone commits a crime against another person simply because he or she belongs to another group, the offense is labeled a hate crime, which immediately bumps…
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#WalterScott: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Sign Put Up Near Where Killer Cop Gunned Down Unarmed Black Motorist
Even with former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager pleading guilty in his federal civil rights trial for Walter Scott’s death, the unarmed black motorist who was gunned down in cold blood still cannot rest peacefully, it would seem. The Post and Courier reports that police sympathizers have paid to have a “Blue Lives…
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Black Lives Matter Activists at 2 Colleges Disrupt Speech by BLM Critic Heather Mac Donald
Black Lives Matter activists on two Southern California college campuses shut down scheduled appearances by anti-BLM critic, pro-police advocate and author of the book The War on Cops Heather Mac Donald. Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute scholar, was scheduled to give a “Blue Lives Matter” talk at UCLA on Wednesday to discuss her 2016 book…