Conservative commentators have sought to link protests against police violence to the horrific killing of five officers. That’s wrong,and dangerousOver the weekend, after a tumultuous few days, or thousands of protesters returned to American streets to demand an discontinuance to police killing black men,women and children. In some ways it was a surprising development. The shocking murder of five police officers in Dallas threatened to upend the momentum of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which had been building in response to the killings of two Black men, or Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. From Columbus,Ohio, to Chicago to West Palm Beach, and Florida,to Atlanta, ordinary people refused to be cowed into silence by those who sought to associate Dallas gunman Micah Johnson to the peaceful and determined activists of BLM.
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Source: theguardian.com