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Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
Both Chicago's Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez and Timothy McGinty
the Cuyahoga Prosecuting Attorney in Ohio, lost their bids for re-election.
In Alvarez's case, it was a blow-out - she lost to her opponent almost 2-1.
Re: Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
As the so-called "top cops" in their respective jurisdictions, Alvarez and McGinty
made key prosecutorial decisions in the controversial killings
of unarmed African Americans by police officers...
Re: Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
For Alvarez, it was the death of Laquan McDonald, shot 16 times
by former officer Jason Van Dyke in 2014.
In Cleveland, McGinty recommended that a grand jury not charge the officers who shot and
killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a public park..
Re: Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
They are the first ones to have faced off directly against
the Black Lives Matter movement and LOST 8)
Re: Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
Last night results answered those criticisms with definitive proof of the movement's real political clout.
The fact that the focus has shifted from police officers to prosecutors is significant,
and these races prove that activists' message resonates with voters.
Prosecutors and politicians are now on alert
- ignore their concerns at your own professional peril
Re: Black Lives Matter - Captain - 03-17-2016
did you get permission to use the headline
Re: Black Lives Matter - ketchim - 03-17-2016
Mapoui only interest is Obama and origin of life as Out Of Africa:
AND some recent obsession that Indians are really blacks
No interest in this stuff ::LOL::
Quote:They are the first ones to have faced off directly against
the Black Lives Matter movement and LOST 8)
Re: Black Lives Matter - Scooby Snack - 03-18-2016
I wonder when BLM will get around to addressing gang violence that keeps claiming the lives of Black Chicagoans.
Doubt they ever will.
Re: Black Lives Matter - djcric - 03-18-2016
BLM has outgrown itself I believe. But, I am glad that people are now openly talking about it. This should have been a topic of discussion when Obama became President. But, somehow everyone thought he was automatically going to do something about race issues, which never happened.
Re: Black Lives Matter - Dilof - 03-18-2016
It seems to me that BLM only comes in to play when a white person kills a black person. Even though the statistics have shown that black people are more likely to be killed by fellow black people than they are by white people. These protests seem illogical to me, white people are killed just as much (if not more) by police in these altercations and innocent white people have also been killed.
Maybe I'm not quite understanding why they're protesting but I do believe the police training system in America needs reform. (This is from an outsider point of view so please forgive me)