Three years after the murder of George Floyd sparked 'racial justice' protests and riots, the national Black Lives Matter charity is wrestling to stay afloat amid major legal and financial pressure.
Three years after the murder of George Floyd sparked"racial justice" protests and riots, the national Black Lives Matter charity is wrestling to stay afloat amid major legal and financial pressure.
Among those purchases was a swanky $6 million Los Angeles mansion where Cullors threw parties. The National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog, later alleged in an April 2022 IRS complaint that the BLM charity could face criminal or civil penalties for illegally using the mansion for the benefit of Cullors.
His group filed two complaints last year with the attorneys general of California and Washington that accused the foundation of illegal fundraising. Both states warned the BLM charity in January 2022 that it must stop taking money from residents until it provides information in connection to its 2020 finances, the Washington Examiner reported.
In turn, those weeks were dubbed the most expensive riots in U.S. history. They also proved to be financially fruitful for the BLM charity. "It's almost hard to imagine it was that long ago," Minnesota Senate Assistant Minority Leader Zach Duckworth, a Republican, told the Washington Examiner."Many of the businesses that were impacted or damaged or burned never recovered. People's livelihoods completely gone or erased."
Riots later broke out in Philadelphia on May 30, for instance, and lasted for more than three weeks. That day, one sneaker store hit amid the looting was Philadelphia Runner, which opened its doors in 2004.
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