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Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi are the creators of the now famous hash tag Black Lives Matter. It was made as a call to action after George Zimmerman was not held accountable for the fatal shooting of teen Trayvon Martin in 2012. This incident was what gave life to the Black Lives Matter movement and has reframed the way Americans perceive police treatments of people of color. It was not until 2014 when it exploded all over social media after a Ferguson police officer killed a young black man named Michael Brown. The book Forces of Deviance: understanding the dark side of policing says, “African Americans tend to believe that the police were more corrupt, more unfair, harsher, tougher, less friendly, and crueler than did whites. African Americans generally were more dissatisfied with police service in comparison to the white population” (Kappeler, Sluder, & Alpert 6). Ferguson was exposed as a case study of structural racism in America and a metaphor for all that

Some Black-Lives-Matter activists were trying to push the government to not have police officers mostly white, and to place more African American officers into the police force. “Studies showed in 2007 that African American police officers were treating the blacks harsher than what the white cops were” (Craven 2016). When most African American citizens see black cops, they feel like they are being betrayed because one of their own kind is going against them. Black officers felt that they weren’t accepted in their societies because they were cops trying to help better their city and

Instead of addressing real issues of racism, the activists focus on a few incidents where a black person has gotten into a deadly confrontation with law enforcement — but where there doesn’t appear to have been any racism.In many of the incidents, the officers themselves were black or Hispanic. The high-profile accusations and scrutiny have resulted in ruining the careers and reputations of many law enforcement officers, who are often forced to resign, subsequently facing civil lawsuits and even criminal charges.” (Alexander 1). Black Lives Matter is still new to history it has only been going on a few years, and Police shootings have been a major “help” for Black Lives Matter so that the media will expand the Black Lives Matter voice/movement. The Black Lives Matter movement say that police are only shooting the black people committing the crime just because they are black, and this is a major reason why these people are hypersensitive. They say these things to draw attention to themselves and say that what happened, but they over dramatise the occasion of what happened. This is gold to the media, so the media helps the people affected by the police shootings by helping over dramatise the situation that

According to a Guardian study, young African-American men were nine times more likely to be killed by police enforcement than any other American, which recorded a tally of 1,134 deaths in 2015. After many incidents of innocent black people dying by the hands of police enforcement, America is forced to realize important narrative of race and inequality. The Black Lives Matter movement was formed to combat and expose racism and anti-blackness in the United States. Ever since its birth, many have joined the movement; creating and organizing protests, speaking against anti-blackness. But in contrast, many others have criticized BLM, calling it a “terrorist” organization and a hate group. The Black Lives Matter movement being classified as a terrorist or hate group is a misjudge argument and a malevolent narrative.

The Black Lives Matter movement does not only focus on improving the justice system for black people, they want “Justice for all”. Although some may argue that the group hates white people and police officers. Patricia Cullor founder of the BLM movement “The Black Lives Matter movement demands that the country affirms the value of black life in practical and pragmatic ways, including addressing an increasing the racial wealth gap” (para 9). None of what the BLM stands for includes producing a hatred for whites or police officers. The BLM group explains, “It is about acknowledging that the system already treats white lives as if they have more value, as if they are more worthy of protection, safety, education, and a good quality of life than black lives are” (About para 9). This group was created to

“Black Lives Matter” is a contemporary movement that was designed to break racist police violence. The name of the organization itself had the ability to direct so much with just a few words; which shows that the directive that the movement is trying to present needs to be affirmed. The movement started as a small but brutal dissent in a St. Louis suburb that had broken out into a conflagration that has consumed all of America. The “Black Lives Matter” movement has compassed something in our time that is rare to us such as: avoiding the authority of our country’s commanding inauguration. Neither law enforcement nor Democrats were capable enough to bar the movement; which has bewildered

Opposing Position: Black men face a unique threat in twenty-first century America: white police officers. Because of a lack of accountability for racist agents of the state who abuse their power, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement claims that violence is perpetuated in black, urban communities.

Black Lives Matter is a movement created to try and stop racial police brutality,and they hold lots of protests all over America (Katz). “ I am voting for Hillary Clinton… Clinton's platform on racial justice is strong” writes Emily Tess Kaz Quoting DeRay Mckesson a Black Lives Matter activist. Another way people are trying to stop police brutality is cell phones; people are taking videos all over America and posting them on social media this shines a light on police brutality (Ly). These are only a few of the ways people are trying to stop police

Black lives matter is a movement that started after Trayvon Martin was murdered. George Zimmerman was the man who shot Trayvon, and George was found innocent. The movement sparked from this event and continued to grow as more and more events like the Trayvon Martin killing began to surface. The purpose of this movement is to end police brutality and racism against black men and women (Black Lives Matter, 2016). Police brutality is a major issue in the United States. Over the last few years, the media has brought more attention to this brutality than ever before. Many races believe that they are being targeted by police more often than others particularly black men. The media has brought so much attention to these crimes that people have formed organizations like Black lives matter, and people have started protesting after the events. Many people believe that all cops are racist, there are no good cops anymore, but that is simply not true. Police have a very hard job to do, and sometimes a few bad seeds can give an entire organization a bad reputation. Because of these peoples beliefs, many protests have occurred. Several of these protest have turned violent and became riots. These riots are hurting the communities physically and financially. During these riots, states bring in more police so that they can protect their citizens, but because people are so upset over this more innocent people are being killed. It doesn’t matter if a person is black, white, hispanic or asian,

Black Lives Matter is a movement against violence and systemic racism toward black people. At least 102 unarmed black people were killed by cops in 2015. In the essay by Brent Staples, he explains in one of his paragraphs, that he knew a black journalist that was working on a story on a murderer. While the journalist was in his car, cops came to him at gunpoint thinking that ha was the murderer. This is what Brent wrote,” I never fared as badly as another black male journalist. He went to nearby Waukegan, Illinois, a couple of summers ago to work on a story about a murderer who was born there. Mistaking the reporter for the killer, police officers hauled him from his car at gunpoint and for his press credentials would probably have tried

In the recent years, the issue of police brutality has been magnified and blown up for the entire world to see. The American media and the outside world has had their finger on the button waiting for the next incident to arise. Coming from this type of publicity a movement known as "Black Lives Matter" was born. This group has become widely popular. They have used a variety of protest methods to achieve their goals. Their main goal is to create a movement that invokes changes between the relationship between police; and the African-American community.

During the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people. But in the 21st century, it is difficult to fathom the fact that America is still divided when it comes to racial issues. Many African-American men have been brutally murdered by the police and this has sparked anger and rage in the black community towards police officers that put their lives down every day to protect and serve their communities. This tension between the black community and police officers needs to be demolished in order for communities to truly become unified and concerted. It

The main idea of The Danger of the Black Lives Matter Movement is the movement has been gaining ground in society, but there are unprecedented effects and problems that are not addressed. Heather Mac Donald’s perspective is that the Black Lives Matter movement is causing more crime to run amuck, less police involvement, and the tenant of the movement concerning police is false because black on black crime is more prevalent than the police shootings directed towards African American. The point that the Black Lives Matter movement’s tenant that police pose the greatest threat to African Americans is nullified when checking the statistics that black on Black crime is 3% compared to the 12% of Whites and Latinos face then there is the fact that

Originating in 2012, the political movement known under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has exploded in size and renown. This movement, which was initially inspired after a police officer was acquitted of all charges after fatally shooting an African American individual, seeks to diminish police brutality against African American individuals and systemic racism particularly in the United States. Sweeping the nation, Black Lives Matter has become an international movement and its influence has only increased with time. On the movement’s official website, the following was written regarding the history of the hashtag-inspired entourage, “#BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.” (http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/). The #BlackLivesMatter movement asserts that racism is still prevalent in modern society and exists not only in passive forms. Instead, racism apparently can be both overt and implicit.

No human life is more important than another. A better movement than B.L.M. (Black Lives Matter) would be A.L.M. (All Lives Matter). These are some of the statistics that I found on The Daily Wire; 1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. 2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. 3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. 4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. And, 5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. There needs to be a law passed stating that if you are violently protesting,