Black lives matter protests
The Black Lives Matter protests are a big deal in our country right now. The black community has organized protests down the streets of the country, to point out the racial injustice and Police cruelty in the state’s police stations and justice ruling system. These protests are to ask people not to stereotype them based on the color of their skin, and that the color of their skin doesn’t make them a criminal.
BLM protesters helping police officers
An organizer of a peaceful protest in East Liberty shares water with police supervising the event. Another group of people forms a chain to protect a white officer separated from his unit. Those men showed people that not all BLM protesters are bad and that not all of the police officers stereotype. With all the heat on the black community and the police, this is what our country needs more of.
Black lives matter, protests peaceful?
Police and the government justify sending out the military on civilian people by saying that they are riots and that they are disturbing the peace, yet they are only using their first amendment right of freedom of speech. 93% of BLM protests are peaceful but president Trump on Wednesday evening, Oct. 21, 2020, still claims that all BLM protests are illegal and are violent. Some groups are violent but that does not mean that all of the protests are bad, and are destroying property. So not only are they being judged on the color of their skin they are considered criminals for using their first amendment.
Police cruelty
There are many cases of police cruelty throughout the country. One instance of police cruelty is George Floyd, George Floyd was a victim of police brutality. One day when George Floyd was out driving, he didn’t notice that one of his tail lights was out. When he got pulled over the police officer asked him to step out of the car, when he refused because he had done nothing wrong, the police officer forcibly removed him from the vehicle and held him to the ground with his lag on his neck. He pleaded “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, they’re going to kill me man” as he capt pleading for mercy the police officer that was on top of him continued punching and elbowing him. He died in police custody. Other victims of police cruelty are Justin Howell, Sean Monterrosa. Throws are just three of the people surfing from police cruelty, and racial injustices.
