Black Lives Matter

Victims

2009-01-01 Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant was killed by officers in Oakland CA responding to a fight on a transit.

2012-02-26 Trayvon Martin was walking home from a convenience store while visiting a family townhouse at the Retreat at Twin Lakes. He was fatally shot by George Zimmerman who claimed self-defense and cited Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. Zimmerman was only charged and tried a year later after heavy media coverage and protest rallies.

2013-11-02 Renisha McBride was shot and killed by shotgun when she knocked on a door and the homeowner thought she was breaking in.

2014-11-02 A twelve-year-old child Tamir Rice was shot outside a rec center by a police officer. A grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against the shooting or responding officers, the DOJ found insufficient evidence to support federal charges, but the DOJ did find a pattern of excessive force. They settled a civil rights lawsuit with Tamir Rice’s family though they did not admit wrongdoing.

2015-06-17 This was the date of the Charleston church shooting. The shooter was a white supremacist. Not only did the suspect enter the church and spend 45 minutes in worship with the congregation prior to his killing spree, he waited until they were in prayer before he began the massacre, firing approximately 74 rounds, and then told one of the victims “I’m going to leave you here to tell the story”. Dylan Roof remains on death row in Terre Haute Federal Prison in Indiana.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-17/charleston-ame-church-shooting

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-sentence-upheld-man-who-killed-9-south-carolina-church-n1277667

2016-10-20 Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot in the back 16 times by a Chicago police officer. The officer was in jail for three years only.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/1077574977/jason-van-dyke-chicago-police-released-laquan-mcdonald

2020-02-23 Three white men chased down and killed 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery who was jogging.

https://www.acluga.org/timeline-events-wrongful-killing-mr-ahmaud-arbery/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/men-convicted-ahmaud-arberys-murder-new-trial/story?id=115101537

2020-05-25 George Floyd was murdered when a police officer pressed his knee into the back of Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes.

https://www.mprnews.org/crime-law-and-justice/killing-of-george-floyd

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/9-minutes-29-seconds-george-floyd-was-killed-forever-changing-neighbor-rcna198063

2021-10-06 Charlie Kirk called George Floyd a scumbag during a speech in Mankato Minnesota, adding that his death was not worthy of the national attention it received.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/charlie-kirk-exploits-racial-divide-to-reach-gen-z-in-mankato-speech/

2022-05-14 A white supremacist walked into a Buffalo NY supermarket and killed 10 Black people and wounded 3 others in a racially motivated massacre. Investigators later found out his motives had a lot to do with him buying into the “Great Replacement Theory” conspiracy.

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/military-history-and-science/2022-buffalo-shooting

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shoppers-regulars-retired-police-officer-victims-buffalo-shooting/story?id=84731033

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/us/buffalo-ny-supermarket-multiple-shooting/index.html

2016

2016-03-18 As co-founder of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza stated in a conference, “we are expected to participate in democracy while receiving conditional citizenship in return”.

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/why-black-lives-matter/

2022

2022-05-25 During an interview on Tucker Carlson Heather MacDonald said the Black Lives Matter had a problematic narrative. She claimed we don’t have a police brutality problem in the United States.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6306818731112

2024

2024-05-01 Governor Greg Abbott gave a full pardon to Daniel Perry, the former US Army sergeant who murdered Garrett Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin Texas in July of 2020. Prior to Perry murdering a protester, he posted online “I’m going to go kill a protester”.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/10/daniel-perry-murder-austin-protestor/

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/05/17/487842/gov-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry-who-was-convicted-of-killing-a-black-lives-matter-protester/#:~:text=Mikala%20Compton%20/%20Austin%20American%2DStatesman,the%20governor%20to%20issue%20one.

https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2023-05-10/daniel-perry-sentence-garrett-foster-murder-black-lives-matter-protest-austin

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/bpp/Sgt_Perry_PR.pdf

https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2023/05/09/soldier-to-be-sentenced-for-murder-in-texas-protest-shooting/

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/14/daniel-perry-racist-comments-texas-shooting-austin-protester/#:~:text=Unsealed%20evidence%20shows%20racist%20comments,Travis%20County%20jury%20last%20week

2024-06-19 Valentina Gomez posted a racist Juneteenth comment on X attacking Black Lives Matter and reparations.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-valentina-gomez-juneteenth-missouri-1914897 This link disappeared

https://www.facebook.com/reel/443645651772708