BLM demonstraties in de VS #62 It ain't over till the fat lady sings!

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Over Half of Police Killings Are Unreported in Government Statistics—Study

More than half of all police killings in the U.S. are misclassified or unreported in official government statistics, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine compared data from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), the government system that collates all death certificates, to three non-governmental, open-source databases on fatal police violence.

The study, obtained by Newsweek ahead of its publication in The Lancet on Thursday, found that the NVSS under-reported deaths from police violence by more than 55 percent between 1980 and 2018.

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They estimated that the NVSS failed to report 17,100 deaths attributable to police violence out of an estimated 30,800 that took place between 1980 and 2018. In 2018 alone, the most recent year for which data is available, there were 642 missing out of an estimated 1,240 deaths, according to the study.

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Support for Black Lives Matter declined after George Floyd protests, but has remained unchanged since

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Op zaterdag 14 augustus 2021 23:23 schreef Enchanter het volgende:
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ongelooflijk.
Dat wordt dus gelijk schieten

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Black Lives Matter of Greater New York leader Hawk Newsome said Wednesday there would be "bloodshed" and "riots" if Mayor-elect Eric Adams keeps his campaign promise of reinstating a controversial undercover anti-crime unit.

Newsome made the comments following a meeting with Adams that was live-streamed on Instagram. Though the two agreed on several points, they clashed over bringing back plainclothes cops in order to combat the city's rising violent crime rates.

"If they think they are going back to the old ways of policing then we're going to take to the streets again," Newsome said to reporters outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall after the meeting. "There will be riots. There will be fire, and there will be bloodshed."

Adams, a former NYPD captain and current Brooklyn borough president, was elected mayor in November after he won a June primary against a crowded field of Democratic candidates, which included several progressives. The moderate Democrat has pledged that the undercover anti-crime unit will return to patrolling the city streets after it was disbanded in 2020 during the social justice protests that swept through New York City.

During the closed-door meeting with Black Lives Matter leaders, Adams said, "There's one thing that we do agree on, that we need to change conditions that people are living in, historical conditions. And the conditions have not changed."

"What I know for sure, is there is no one in this city that's going to deal with this issue as the mayor of this city better than I'm going to," Adams, who will become New York City's second Black mayor, said.

However, Adams also called on the BLM leaders to step up.

"You're on the ground. Stop the violence in my community. I'm holding you accountable," he told them. "Don't hold me accountable. Being the mayor, being the borough president, being the state senator—I put my body on the line for my community, so I'm not here for folks to come and say, 'Eric, we're gonna hold you accountable.'"

Chivona Newsome, Hawk's sister and co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, disagreed with Adams' assertion. She stated, "You're the mayor of New York! There's only so much we can do."

"I disagree," Adams answered.

Newsome spoke with the New York Post after the meeting with the mayor-elect. He said he was bothered that Adams "didn't offer a comment on police reform" during the talk. The activist also promised his group would take action should they feel the NYPD is targeting their community.

"We will be at his front door, we will be at Gracie Mansion, we will be in the streets if he allows these police to abuse us," Newsome said.

"I am not threatening anyone. I am just saying that it's a natural response to aggressive oppression, people will react," he added.

On Thursday, Adams reiterated his vow to reinstate the plainclothes cop units. He also downplayed Newsome's comments regarding an uproar occurring if the undercover cops return.

"They didn't say any of that in the meeting. That was a lot of grandstanding," Adams said to the New York Daily News. "They know who I am. I ran on a very clear message: My city will not be unsafe and that is what we're going to do. Clear plan: Putting together a plainclothes anti-gun unit—that will happen—and the city is going to be safe."

Adams also took a shot at the power of the leaders in Wednesday's meeting. He told the outlet that the group is "not representative of the Black Lives Matter movement."

Newsome objected to Adams' characterization, telling the Daily News: "It's hypocritical that he would downplay the impact of our organization when we are looked at as global voices for the movement."

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)s-reinstated-1648426

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BLM-oprichter in opspraak om privéfeesten in miljoenenvilla
De 38-jarige Patrisse Cullors, mede-oprichter van de Black Lives Matter-beweging, is in opspraak geraakt nadat ze heeft toegegeven twee feesten te hebben georganiseerd in een miljoenenvilla in Los Angeles. Cullors vertelde maandag aan persbureau AP dat ze begin vorig jaar het verjaardagsfeestje van haar zoon heeft gevierd in het zes miljoen kostende huis. Later zou ze daar ook nog een bijeenkomst hebben georganiseerd om de inauguratie van president Biden te vieren. Dit terwijl Cullors eerder beweerde de villa nooit voor persoonlijk gewin gebruikt te hebben.

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Black Lives Matter kreeg vorige maand te maken met veel kritiek nadat bekend werd dat de organisatie de miljoenenvilla – met onder meer zes slaapkamers, zes badkamers, een zwembad en een geluidspodium – heeft gekocht met behulp van donaties van BLM-aanhangers. De organisatie bood vervolgens hun excuses aan en beloofde in de toekomst transparanter te werk te gaan.

BLM gaf vervolgens de media de schuld van de „opruiende en speculatieve rapporten waarin journalisten de financiële gegevens van de groep onderzochten en schade hadden veroorzaakt”.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/(...)en-in-miljoenenvilla

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Op dinsdag 10 mei 2022 15:55 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 17 mei 2022 18:14 schreef Enchanter het volgende:
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Op donderdag 26 mei 2022 14:29 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:
Programmamaker Milouska Meulens over de impact van de dood van George Floyd

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Op donderdag 26 mei 2022 14:36 schreef Toine51 het volgende:

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Nou, dat zal wel weer een eenzijdig programma zijn, zonder de negatieve aspecten van het verhaal...

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Op donderdag 26 mei 2022 16:24 schreef spectrumanalyser het volgende:
Barack Obama is van mening dat het treurig is dat er 19 kinderen zijn omgekomen maar dat we nu vooral moeten stilstaan bij het overlijden van een drugsverslaafde bajesklant en valsemunter.
Nooit geweten dat hij zo'n hekel aan kinderen had.

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Op donderdag 26 mei 2022 16:50 schreef Toine51 het volgende:

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Ja joh, stilstaan bij een crimineel die voor zijn familie dood meer opleverde dan levend