Blue Lives Matter Scam Exposed
Where are police boosters in wake of Tyre Nichols’ death
One of the more disturbing responses to the movement to declare that Black Lives Matter was the incessant promotion of Blue Lives Matter.
People had yard signs. Bumper stickers. Social media was plastered with it.
The chorus was so loud it was drowning out and invalidating the pain of our Black brothers and sisters.
It didn’t make sense to me. There were no efforts to mass incarcerate police officers. There were no serious efforts to get rid of the police altogether. Police aren’t marginalized. There was no real rejection of the idea that police have a very difficult and dangerous job.
The demand on the police in the wake of numerous police killings of unarmed Black men and women was simply to investigate racism among the police, fix hiring and training practices, end the good ol’ boys’ code of silence, require body cams, and undertake other actions to end what anyone with common sense would know is a pervasive problem among the police.
Nobody I knew in racial-justice circles was arguing that all police are racists. Or that police aren’t a necessary part of society. Black people regularly call the cops when crime confronts them. Black juries regularly convict criminals.
