Black Lives Matter
by: Michaela Reid
Background Info
-started on social media
-started after George Zimmerman, acquitted of murder of Trayvon Martin
-started as a protest group
-3 woman popularized a twitter #blacklivesmatter
-started in Ferguson Missouri
-Built on a generation of defiant activist leaders bent on breaking White supremacy
About the Protest Movement
-Against Police Brutality against African Americans
-Disrupts government meetings and events
-Members organized a plan to protest about the criminal justice program and that officers started wearing body cameras.
-Open and affirming to the public as long as they believe
-Unapologetically Black/ African American
-All members can be a leader
-Also known as Black Freedom Movement
-A lot of members are religious people and belong to churches
-Some of the protest turn into riots
-Sparked by the death of Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray
-Baltimore residents rising violent crimes and do not rest until justice is served
-Because the members are so angry they are raising the crime rate around the world
The Effects of the Protest
-3 of which were Black and 3 were White
-One candidate for mayor of Baltimore supports Black Lives Matter group she gains a lot of the votes of citizens in Baltimore.
-Officers ask Black pastors to step in and "calm the racially charged confrontations between officers and protesters.