WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Black Lives Matter protests that erupted across the United States after the killing in custody of African-American George Floyd have begun to wane, having chalked up some accomplishments in the fight against racism and police brutality.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The Black Lives Matter protests that erupted across the United States after the killing in custody of African-American George Floyd have begun to wane, having chalked up some accomplishments in the fight against racism and police brutality.
Until now the seven-year-old Black Lives Matter movement has involved mostly African-Americans in localised protests against police killings, such as those in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. The firestorm was accelerated by a unique confluence of events, say activists, including provocative tweets from President Donald Trump casting the demonstrators as violent"anarchists" and the coronavirus lockdown that left people stuck home consuming more news and social media.
Add to that, he said,"the full kind of breakdown in leadership that we've seen across the country, the utter failure of government, particularly on a national level."Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said Americans had moved beyond the"black lives matter" slogan to engage with the"defund the police" reform campaign that activists have been discussing for years.
But it has empowered activists to keep pressing for police and other reforms at the local level, and to turn their attention to the November elections.
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