Black Lives Matter

Victims

1991-03-03 Four officers brutally beat Rodney King, but two of the officers were later acquitted despite the incident being captured on video by a bystander. This ignited the L.A. riots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King

2009-01-01 Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant was killed by officers in Oakland CA.

2012-02-26 Trayvon Martin was walking home from a convenience store while visiting a family townhouse when 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 after she knocked on a door and the homeowner thought she was breaking in.

2014-11-02 Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was killed outside a rec center by a police officer. A grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against the officer.

2015-06-17 A white supremacist opened fire at Charleston church, but only after he spend 45 minutes in worship with the congregation. The suspect waited until everyone was 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 A Chicago police officer shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in the back 16 times and only served three years in jail.

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

2019-05-10 Ronald Hardin Greene was arrested by Louisiana State Police, repeatedly beaten, shackled, tazed, and denied medical care. He died before reaching the hospital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ronald_Greene

TIMESTAMP 9:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_SFu52pBGA&list=WL&index=1&t=620s

2020-02-23 Three white men chased down and killed 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was out 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 died after 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, killed 10 Black people and wounded 3 others. Investigators discovered his motives were tied in with 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 Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza stated, “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 claimed the Black Lives Matter had a problematic narrative and 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