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    civilian gets penalized; keep in mind, the punishments are very minimal. In my opinion, they are getting rewarded for killing black people. As a member of law enforcement, their job is to protect and serve the community, but it seems like all they are trying to achieve is inflict fear upon and intimidate people. One action that I have taken is joining the “Black Lives Matter” movement. It may not seem like much,…

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    only comes from whites. After all, the popular protest ‘Black Lives Matter’ has implemented into today’s minds that there is a ‘distinction between black flesh and white humanity;” the difference being that blacks are lesser in white’s eyes (Williams). This thought, however, is not the full story; this racial prejudice falls onto both races. Particularly in the popular police shooting cases there has been proven racism on both races, but the black racism is hushed by the media. Introducing…

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    College, sent an email to her students regarding to the deaths of two boys, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. In the email, she stated that all lives matter, this caused many students to criticize her for referring to the opposition of the saying “Black Lives Matter”. Many police officers today are now being criticized and presumed guilty when approaching any black man that is in the wrong. This kind of behavior should not be happening because it is causing our law enforcement not to be able to do…

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    as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists," (Bandler, 2016). The effect of the activist movement known as Black Lives Matter creates more discrimination than it does to prevent as it provides false accusations which surfaces the new idea that if any life is to matter, it should be all of them. It is crazy to think that this society has come to so much hatred. After one whole year the most well-known places in this country have…

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    Mahmoud Elsayed 10/17/2017 Professor Ciampi English 121 Why is it that black lives matter more than police lives? Have you ever wondered why police officers get so much hate for doing their jobs or for “no reason”? Well for me that question is always on my mind. Every time I see a video on social media about police brutality I wonder why the police officer’s reason for doing what he did is not out there. Now with that in mind explain to me how that is fair or why is it that people hate police…

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    Since its beginnings, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, as a decentralized, international activist movement, has been largely misunderstood in the public’s eye mainly due to the media’s distorted portrayal of the BLM movement as well as due to the movement’s inability to control its narrative and perception in the world. Since February of 2012, the nation’s African-American community has been in a state of upheaval over the tireless and numerous killings of unarmed African-Americans at the…

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    expressed his dissatisfaction about these chins of events by making the statement " I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,"to the NFL Media exclusive. Furthmore, he was just expessing how unsatisfacted he is with all the controversy regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement and how the minority in this country is treated.…

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    The Black Lives Matter movement started in response to unaccounted police shootings of African Americans. In addition to the problem of police brutality, BLM aims to publicize and challenge the ongoing racial discrimination and degrading of Blacks (“About”). The Police Lives Matter movement points to the deaths of police during duty and the difficulty of the job (“Our Mission”). Similarly, the All Lives Matter movement protests that BLM is exclusive of the value of other groups. Both ALM and BLM…

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    Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter movement is a well-known campaign which was formed by the African American community. The community rally together to protest against police brutality, racial profiling, and civil inequality of African Americans. The “Black Lives Matter” movement has drawn attention to racial issues that we face as a race of people and to the needs of our community. However, The Black Lives Matter movement is becoming less important than it really is because some don’t…

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    African Americans to form the Black Lives Matter movement. These protest have been occurring everywhere in the U.S, knowing that many furious African Americans attend these protest to express the way they feel about the police. As sufficient information we see on the news and videos of African American protesters taunting and shouting at police officers. We ponder and ask ourselves, do these protests put police lives in danger? Knowing that there are many Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S,…

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