Black Lives Matter: Pros

Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement created against violence

and racism toward black people. BLM regularly protests police killings of black
people and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in
the United States.
In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on
social media, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of
African-American teen Trayvon Martin.
Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations
following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in
protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.
The originators of the hashtag expanded their project into a national network of
over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016.
The pros of this type of movement are that it brings awareness of police brutalities,
especially the ones that go unpunished. It brings the unity that was lacking among
black communities. It gives young people an "idea" of what the Civil Rights
movement was like in the 1960s. It gives young black persons something to fight
for.
Also it allows black people to want to make a difference in their community, proving
their points and stop the racism that still exists in their society. It makes the rest of
the world more aware of the wrong police system in the United States
A lot of celebrities are showing their support for the movement, through the
celebrities, even more persons are made aware of the movement
It makes people take out their cellphones and want to record any negative
interaction that they may have with a police officer.
Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by
police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded
a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.
Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males
between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this
year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police causing
almost two thousand deaths of black people. Their rate of police-involved deaths
was five times higher than for white men of the same age.
Paired with official government mortality data, this new finding indicates that about
one in every 65 deaths of a young African American man in the US is a killing by
police.

This epidemic is disproportionately affecting black people, said Brittany Packnett,

an activist and member of the White House taskforce on policing. We are wasting
so many promising young lives by continuing to allow this to happen.
Speaking in the same week that a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, was cleared by
a grand jury over the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American
boy who was carrying a toy gun, Packnett said the criminal justice system was
presenting no deterrent to the excessive use of deadly force by police. Tamir
didnt even live to be 15, (Moss, s.f.)
These protests accuse law enforcement officers using lethal force against all the
unarmed African Americans, this has taken a huge recognition from all the world
have spread across the country in the 16 months since dramatic unrest gripped
Ferguson, Missouri, following the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael
Brown by a white officer.
Overall in 2015, black people were killed at twice the rate of white, Hispanic and
native Americans. About 25% of the African Americans killed were unarmed,
compared with 17% of white people. This disparity has narrowed since the
database was first published on 1 June, at which point black people killed were
found to be twice as likely to not have a weapon. (Taylor, s.f.)
If ISIS killed 217 Americans in one year, the nation would be at war. After police
shot Alfred Olango in San Diego, California, he became the 217th Black person
killed by police this year, according to Mapping Police Violence. (Johnson, s.f.)
The incident occurred after Olangos sister called police after he began acting
strangely. He was allegedly disabled and suffered from a seizure moment before
being confronted by police officers. But instead of taking the time to realize that
Olango was mentally disabled, the police reacted with deadly force. Olango, who
was unarmed at the time, was shot by an officer who fired five rounds.
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this
country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach," said Jon Stewart from
the Mic Web. "Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive."
"You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to
high standards." (Johnson, s.f.)
To conclude we believe that black lives deserve attention, this is not something that
we must leave behind, this deserves admiration, from all the world, we believe that
every live matter but black people specially after everything they suffered in the
past, that racism must stop for good, it is not fair for them to accept these deaths
because they are also humans, some might not be as good as the others, but
police should be more careful about what they do.

References
Johnson, P. (n.d.). The Federalist. Retrieved from
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Moss, A. (n.d.). Quora. Retrieved from https://www.quora.com/What-are-thepositives-and-negatives-of-the-Black-Lives-Matter-movement
Shaw, A. (n.d.). Roling Out. Retrieved from http://rollingout.com/2016/09/28/alfredolango-became-217th-black-person-killed-police-year/
Taylor, J. (n.d.). News.Mic. Retrieved from https://mic.com/articles/148170/here-show-you-can-be-pro-cop-and-pro-black-lives-matter-in-onetweet#.rOZkemuwq