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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles police officers' use of force in the fatal shooting of a black woman last August was \"within policy,\" although some of the officers' tactics were not, the city's Board of Police Commissioners decided Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission, agreeing with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/12/62545/protesters-disrupt-police-commission-meeting/#LABPC%20report\" target=\"_blank\">recommendation\u003c/a> of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/12/62545/protesters-disrupt-police-commission-meeting/#commission%20report\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the officers were justified in \"drawing and exhibiting\" their weapons and using lethal force in the shooting death of Redel Kentel Jones, 30, last August. However, the commission stated that the officers' tactics — their methods in approaching Jones — \"warrant a finding of Administrative Disapproval.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter activists immediately denounced the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care if she was armed with a kitchen knife,” said Melina Abdullah, a professor at Cal State Dominguez Hills. \"I could wrestle a kitchen knife away from a 4-foot 10-inch woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot and killed by LAPD officers who said she approached them with a knife after they confronted her while responding to a report of a robbery at a drug store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 100 people that had gathered outside police headquarters immediately erupted in chants of Redel Jones' name when they heard the decision. They then marched to City Hall and blocked the main east entrance to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAPD patrol units roared up Main Street in response. Officers in riot helmets jumped out and appeared to be ready to clear the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are treating us, the people that live in this city, as if we are enemy forces,\" said Angela James through a megaphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the officers soon backed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 4 p.m. City Hall’s doors remained locked, with a line of officers just inside the glass doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's commission meeting was disrupted briefly when protesters in the audience began loudly chanting slogans denouncing police killings of African-Americans. Police officers formed a line to separate the chanting protesters from commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StoltzeFrankly/status/752919453071843329\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Charlie Beck said the actions of the protesters showed they did not want a dialogue with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StoltzeFrankly/status/752914469324337152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot on the afternoon of Aug. 12, after officers were called to the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw neighborhood to investigate reports that a woman with a knife had robbed the Stocker Rx Pharmacy. Just 20 minutes later, at about 2 p.m., police tried to stop Jones. At the time, police said she fit the description of the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones fled into a nearby alley, and then \"suddenly turned toward the officers,” according to an LAPD statement. The officers used a Taser on Jones, but it “did not appear to have an effect” on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers opened fire when Jones “began to advance toward one of the officers while still armed with the knife,” police said. She died at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcus Vaughn, husband of Jones, said he traveled from Oakland to urge the police commission to change LAPD policies because they don't work. \"They only result in murder and separations of families,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11018378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11018378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus Vaughn, husband of Redel Kentel Jones, who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers in August 2015, traveled from Oakland to appear at a meeting of L.A. police commissioners on July 12, 2016. Vaughn said he was there to urge the commission to change LAPD policies because they don't work. "They only result in murder and separations of families," he said. The commission was considering whether officers acted within policy when they shot the 30-year-old Jones, who is black.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/MarcusV-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Vaughn, husband of Redel Kentel Jones, who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers in August 2015, traveled from Oakland to appear at a meeting of L.A. police commissioners on July 12, 2016. Vaughn said he was there to urge the commission to change LAPD policies because they don't work. \"They only result in murder and separations of families,\" he said. The commission was considering whether officers acted within policy when they shot the 30-year-old Jones, who is black. \u003ccite>(Frank Stoltze/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vaughn also called for the policeman involved in his wife's death to be \"prosecuted to the full extent of the law.\" He said the police version of events that his wife brandished a knife is a lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are covering it up. They are trying to save their own selves by claiming she was involved in criminal action,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter activists have denounced the killing of Jones. “People are outraged,” said Melina Abdullah, an organizer for Black Lives Matter and a professor of pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the protests inside the meeting, about 200 demonstrators gathered outside police headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StoltzeFrankly/status/752916560637939712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A look at past L.A. police commission rulings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-policy rulings are fairly rare, though not unheard-of. In rulings handed down from 2011 through 2015, the police commission more often found that officers' \"tactics\" were inappropriate. Far less often, commissioners found that use of lethal force was out of policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, for instance, the commission found nine officers out of policy for tactics but only two out of policy for lethal force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a chart tracking the commission's rulings during that time period, though a couple things should be noted first:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 12 officers found out of policy in 2013 for using lethal force, eight were involved in one incident. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A look at past L.A. police commission rulings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-policy rulings are fairly rare, though not unheard-of. In rulings handed down from 2011 through 2015, the police commission more often found that officers' \"tactics\" were inappropriate. Far less often, commissioners found that use of lethal force was out of policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, for instance, the commission found nine officers out of policy for tactics but only two out of policy for lethal force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a chart tracking the commission's rulings during that time period, though a couple things should be noted first:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 12 officers found out of policy in 2013 for using lethal force, eight were involved in one incident. A majority of the 2015 incidents had yet to appear before the police commission when the data was gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11018386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 583px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11018386\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OutOfPolicy.jpg\" alt=\"Data via the 2015 LAPD Year-end Review of Use of Force\" width=\"583\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OutOfPolicy.jpg 583w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OutOfPolicy-400x703.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data via the 2015 LAPD Year-end Review of Use of Force \u003ccite>(Courtesy KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>DALLAS — Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday condemned \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the slayings of police in Dallas\u003c/a> but stressed the tragedy should not lessen concerns over the killings of black men and women by officers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to the victims of all violence, when we think about what has happened over the past 48 hours,” activist DeRay McKesson said Friday morning during an appearance on C-SPAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack in Dallas killed five officers and injured seven others Thursday night during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men this week in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official Black Lives Matter group called the Dallas attack “the result of the actions of a lone gunman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. We continue our efforts to bring about a better world for all of us,” the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officials have identified one suspect whom they killed, but say they’re unsure how many people participated in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1s3zHabHaw5sMfMwECoVEkjxHBCeYNLX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting in Dallas came as protesters gathered in reaction to the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castile was shot Wednesday while in a car with a woman and a child. The aftermath of the shooting was livestreamed in a Facebook video that has been widely shared on social media and broadcast on TV newscasts. A day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. That, too, was captured on a cellphone video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Lives Matter movement traces its roots to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 and gained national ground after 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Since then, deaths of other unarmed black males at the hands of law enforcement officers have inspired protests under the “Black Lives Matter” moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The movement is bigger than any one person or organization,” McKesson said Friday. “There are so many incredible activists and organizers pushing to make the world more equitable and just.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network appeared to strike a critical tone of the movement in a Friday morning media statement that said Sharpton “reaffirms his commitment that the movement must continue but that it must be anti-police misconduct, not anti-police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official group rejects the notion that Black Lives Matter is against police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tragedy — both for those who have been impacted by yesterday’s attack and for our democracy,” the Black Lives Matter statement said. “There are some who would use these events to stifle a movement for change and quicken the demise of a vibrant discourse on the human rights of Black Americans. We should reject all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement echoes comments from supporters who took to Twitter in the overnight hours to defend the movement in the face of a wave of social media attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“#BlackLivesMatter advocates dignity, justice and freedom, not the murder of cops,” wrote Malkia A. Cyril, director of the Center for Media Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone blaming this Dallas shooting on the #BlackLivesMatter movement is sick,” tweeted New York Daily News columnist Shaun King. “Those protesters were peaceful. This terrorized them too.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a developing story. Last updated 10:58 a.m. ET\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sniper attack in Dallas killed five police officers Thursday, in a bout of violence that didn't end until a sniper who had fired on police died in a parking garage. Police say at least four people were involved in the attack and that they have three suspects in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains unclear how many people might have been firing upon police. Friday morning, federal officials told NPR that the gunman who died in the parking garage was named Micah Xavier Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the five officers who were slain, seven were wounded in the shooting that began just before 9 p.m. local time, at the end of a downtown protest march that was held to condemn two police killings of black men in other cities earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two civilians were also wounded in the attack, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Friday morning. He refused to give details about suspects in the case, citing the active investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspects took elevated positions in a parking garage so they could \"triangulate\" their attacks and inflict harm on as many officers as they could, at what had been a peaceful event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city,\" Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning. \"All I know is that this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what we know about the situation. We'll be updating this post as more news comes in:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suspects\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The gunman who was killed is Micah Xavier Johnson, two federal law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation tell NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have three suspects, including one woman, in custody; another suspect died after an hours-long standoff with police at a parking garage at El Centro College in downtown Dallas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief David Brown said the suspect told negotiators \"the end was coming,\" that he's \"going to hurt and kill more\" law enforcement, and that there were bombs planted all over the garage and downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before dawn Friday, police said their sweeps for explosives had turned up no such devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During negotiations with police, the suspect spoke about his motivations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485220431/were-hurting-dallas-police-chief-david-brown-says\">Police Chief David Brown said\u003c/a> at a Friday morning news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was upset about Black Lives Matter,\" Brown said, adding that the man cited the recent killings of black people and said that he wanted to kill white people — particularly white police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three suspects who are in custody have not been cooperative, Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men were picked up in a traffic stop, after someone saw them flee the scene in a Mercedes. The woman was taken into custody in a parking garage, where the fourth suspect was in a standoff with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man whose picture had been circulated as a possible \"person of interest\" in the case turned himself in and was later released; Dallas police had posted a picture of the man in a camouflage T-shirt, carrying a long gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Timeline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hundreds had gathered for the Black Lives Matter rally and march, which was coming to a close just before 9 p.m. CT when the snipers' gunfire cut through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were targeting the police,\" NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports for \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/\">Morning Edition\u003c/a>. \"They let the protesters pass by and started shooting the police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the gunbattle that ensued was captured on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/michaelbautista86/videos/vb.100003576517454/899698650159344/?type=2&theater\">a Facebook live stream\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>We'll warn you\u003c/strong> that it includes images and language some may find disturbing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the shots came from an \"elevated position,\" targeting officers who had been helping secure the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dozens of Dallas police cars arrived immediately\" after the first shots were fired,\" reports \u003ca href=\"http://keranews.org/post/gunmen-kill-5-officers-downtown-dallas-1-suspect-reported-dead?_ga=1.37631462.757829612.1467973370\">member station KERA\u003c/a>. \"Officers were out in force, wearing helmets, shields and holding assault weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those officers, many of the police who were trapped at the scene were in their patrol and bike uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For minutes afterward, gunfire echoed through the city's streets. Police said they believed two snipers were responsible for the gunfire. A gunman in a parking garage exchanged fire with police for 45 minutes, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://beta.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/07/07/hundreds-expected-downtown-dallas-rally-following-shooting-deaths-alton-sterling-philando-castile\">Dallas Morning News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A standoff then ensued, which ended when the suspect was killed just before 3 a.m. local time. Police Chief Brown says the department used a \"bomb robot\" to place a device \"where the suspect was\" and detonate it — a move that he said was made to prevent any further risk to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Victims\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"Our profession is hurting. Dallas officers are hurting,\" Brown said Friday morning. \"We are heartbroken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those slain has been identified by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, or DART, as transit officer Brent Thompson, 43, who had joined the agency in 2009. He is the first officer killed in the line of duty in DART's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DART also released the names of three injured officers who are expected to recover. They are Omar Cannon, 44, Misty McBride, 32, and Jesus Retana, 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the officers who were injured last night have now been released from medical care, Brown said, while some still need more treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Praising his city's police department, Mayor Rawlings said Dallas recently had the lowest rate of officer-involved shootings of any large American city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five deaths make this the deadliest attack on American law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001, which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/deadliest.html\">National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund\u003c/a> calls \"the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're awaiting word of the identities of others who were killed or wounded in Thursday night's attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Witnesses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Protester Wyatt Rosser, who was close to the front of last night's march, told \u003ca href=\"http://keranews.org/post/gunmen-kill-5-officers-downtown-dallas-1-suspect-reported-dead?_ga=1.37631462.757829612.1467973370\">member station KERA\u003c/a> about his experience:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Black Lives Matter rally ... started out as what was, to me, the biggest and most inspiring rally I've been to in Dallas. The speakers were great and everything was peaceful and beautiful until the end of the march. ... There were really beautiful speakers, a lot of great things were said, and it felt really unifying and we were all standing in solidarity, and that happened, and everyone just scattered and we broke apart. That was probably the most intense and disheartening thing for me, how symbolic it was being linked in arms, feeling this really strong moment and then hearing gunshots, and then everything just fell apart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Aftermath\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the local and FBI investigation efforts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it has some 30 personnel on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our K9s and explosives enforcement officers are continuing to conduct explosives sweeps for the safety of the public,\" a spokesman in Dallas tells NPR's Carrie Johnson. \"This is the initial stage of what we expect to be a long investigation. We are not disclosing any firearms information at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have \u003ca href=\"http://www.dallascitynews.net/dpd-shooting-update\">closed off around 15 blocks of downtown\u003c/a> as their investigators work Friday, and they're unsure when the area will be reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of downtown office buildings are closed today. They include Dallas County administration buildings, courts and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas is in mourning, reports NPR's Wade Goodwyn, who is based in the city:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Last night was just devastating for the city of Dallas. You know, it's taken us 50 years to get over the charge that we are the city of hate, after the Kennedy assassination. And there were some strange similarities. This shooting happened about two blocks away from where the president was killed. Lee Harvey Oswald knew the parade route, and picked an elevated position from which to attack. Police now believe that these snipers knew the protest route — and they took an elevated position from which to attack.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in both cases, Wade says, the effects were devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Responses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>President Obama called it \"a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,\" in remarks delivered at the start of his trip to Warsaw, Poland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying that he had spoken with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Obama said, \"I believe that I speak for every single American when I say that we are horrified over these events, and that we stand united with the people and the police department in Dallas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama added that while the \"twisted motivations\" of the attackers will surely emerge, \"there is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks, or any violence against law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the FBI is in contact with Dallas police about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a rapidly developing story; we'll provide updates as they become available, including corrections should any of the above information prove to be incorrect.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspects took elevated positions in a parking garage so they could \"triangulate\" their attacks and inflict harm on as many officers as they could, at what had been a peaceful event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city,\" Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning. \"All I know is that this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what we know about the situation. We'll be updating this post as more news comes in:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suspects\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The gunman who was killed is Micah Xavier Johnson, two federal law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation tell NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have three suspects, including one woman, in custody; another suspect died after an hours-long standoff with police at a parking garage at El Centro College in downtown Dallas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief David Brown said the suspect told negotiators \"the end was coming,\" that he's \"going to hurt and kill more\" law enforcement, and that there were bombs planted all over the garage and downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before dawn Friday, police said their sweeps for explosives had turned up no such devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During negotiations with police, the suspect spoke about his motivations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485220431/were-hurting-dallas-police-chief-david-brown-says\">Police Chief David Brown said\u003c/a> at a Friday morning news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was upset about Black Lives Matter,\" Brown said, adding that the man cited the recent killings of black people and said that he wanted to kill white people — particularly white police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three suspects who are in custody have not been cooperative, Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men were picked up in a traffic stop, after someone saw them flee the scene in a Mercedes. The woman was taken into custody in a parking garage, where the fourth suspect was in a standoff with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man whose picture had been circulated as a possible \"person of interest\" in the case turned himself in and was later released; Dallas police had posted a picture of the man in a camouflage T-shirt, carrying a long gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Timeline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hundreds had gathered for the Black Lives Matter rally and march, which was coming to a close just before 9 p.m. CT when the snipers' gunfire cut through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were targeting the police,\" NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports for \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/\">Morning Edition\u003c/a>. \"They let the protesters pass by and started shooting the police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the gunbattle that ensued was captured on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/michaelbautista86/videos/vb.100003576517454/899698650159344/?type=2&theater\">a Facebook live stream\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>We'll warn you\u003c/strong> that it includes images and language some may find disturbing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the shots came from an \"elevated position,\" targeting officers who had been helping secure the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dozens of Dallas police cars arrived immediately\" after the first shots were fired,\" reports \u003ca href=\"http://keranews.org/post/gunmen-kill-5-officers-downtown-dallas-1-suspect-reported-dead?_ga=1.37631462.757829612.1467973370\">member station KERA\u003c/a>. \"Officers were out in force, wearing helmets, shields and holding assault weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those officers, many of the police who were trapped at the scene were in their patrol and bike uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For minutes afterward, gunfire echoed through the city's streets. Police said they believed two snipers were responsible for the gunfire. A gunman in a parking garage exchanged fire with police for 45 minutes, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://beta.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/07/07/hundreds-expected-downtown-dallas-rally-following-shooting-deaths-alton-sterling-philando-castile\">Dallas Morning News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A standoff then ensued, which ended when the suspect was killed just before 3 a.m. local time. Police Chief Brown says the department used a \"bomb robot\" to place a device \"where the suspect was\" and detonate it — a move that he said was made to prevent any further risk to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Victims\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"Our profession is hurting. Dallas officers are hurting,\" Brown said Friday morning. \"We are heartbroken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those slain has been identified by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, or DART, as transit officer Brent Thompson, 43, who had joined the agency in 2009. He is the first officer killed in the line of duty in DART's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DART also released the names of three injured officers who are expected to recover. They are Omar Cannon, 44, Misty McBride, 32, and Jesus Retana, 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the officers who were injured last night have now been released from medical care, Brown said, while some still need more treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Praising his city's police department, Mayor Rawlings said Dallas recently had the lowest rate of officer-involved shootings of any large American city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five deaths make this the deadliest attack on American law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001, which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/deadliest.html\">National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund\u003c/a> calls \"the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're awaiting word of the identities of others who were killed or wounded in Thursday night's attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Witnesses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Protester Wyatt Rosser, who was close to the front of last night's march, told \u003ca href=\"http://keranews.org/post/gunmen-kill-5-officers-downtown-dallas-1-suspect-reported-dead?_ga=1.37631462.757829612.1467973370\">member station KERA\u003c/a> about his experience:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Black Lives Matter rally ... started out as what was, to me, the biggest and most inspiring rally I've been to in Dallas. The speakers were great and everything was peaceful and beautiful until the end of the march. ... There were really beautiful speakers, a lot of great things were said, and it felt really unifying and we were all standing in solidarity, and that happened, and everyone just scattered and we broke apart. That was probably the most intense and disheartening thing for me, how symbolic it was being linked in arms, feeling this really strong moment and then hearing gunshots, and then everything just fell apart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Aftermath\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the local and FBI investigation efforts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it has some 30 personnel on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our K9s and explosives enforcement officers are continuing to conduct explosives sweeps for the safety of the public,\" a spokesman in Dallas tells NPR's Carrie Johnson. \"This is the initial stage of what we expect to be a long investigation. We are not disclosing any firearms information at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have \u003ca href=\"http://www.dallascitynews.net/dpd-shooting-update\">closed off around 15 blocks of downtown\u003c/a> as their investigators work Friday, and they're unsure when the area will be reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of downtown office buildings are closed today. They include Dallas County administration buildings, courts and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas is in mourning, reports NPR's Wade Goodwyn, who is based in the city:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Last night was just devastating for the city of Dallas. You know, it's taken us 50 years to get over the charge that we are the city of hate, after the Kennedy assassination. And there were some strange similarities. This shooting happened about two blocks away from where the president was killed. Lee Harvey Oswald knew the parade route, and picked an elevated position from which to attack. 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"content": "\u003cp>A massive protest against police violence swept through downtown Oakland on Thursday evening, with hundreds of marchers taking over the Nimitz Freeway and shutting it down virtually all night in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the crowd, which appeared to number in the thousands, expressed anger at fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand on the median divider on Interstate 880 on July 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand on the median divider on Interstate 880 in Oakland on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s bad. It’s just a horrible feeling,\" said a man who gave his name as Q. George. He said the bombardment of online videos involving the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a> in Minnesota this week was hard to bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just to know that that goes on and then they don’t get prosecuted afterward,\" he said. \"They might get arrested, and they might even get put on trial, but they don’t get convicted. Justice is not served.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also voiced their anger over a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/30/contra-costa-deputy-resigns-amid-growing-sexual-misconduct-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving dozens of officers from multiple police agencies and the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the Oakland Police Department, we charge you as guilty,\" the Rev. Ben McBride of Berkeley told a swelling crowd gathered outside OPD headquarters. \"Guilty of murder. We charge you of guilty of being human traffickers. We charge you as guilty for acting like peacemakers when you’ve been operating like terrorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride and others at the front of the crowd poured red paint on the Police Department's glass doors. Later in the evening, some demonstrators sprayed graffiti across the OPD building and a set of doors to the building were smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has seen a quick succession of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">three police chiefs\u003c/a> in June as \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">news reports\u003c/a> revealed that Oakland officers allegedly had sex with an underage woman exploited in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013361 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Juanita Alvarez of Napa, brother and sister Leroy Gainey and LaRay Gainey hold up protest signs outside of the Oakland Police Department Administration building on July 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita Alvarez of Napa, and brother and sister Leroy Gainey and LaRay Gainey, hold up protest signs outside the Oakland Police Department administration building on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exie Adams, from Davis, explained why she made the trip to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a black person and as a black woman, understanding the issue and prevalence of police killing, understanding how it's affected my community, how could I not come?\" Adams said. She added she was outraged and disappointed over the involvement of so many law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marchers chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"no justice, no peace, no racist police,\" as they left Frank Ogawa Plaza and moved down Broadway to the Police Department\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred marchers walked up the off-ramp at the intersection of Sixth Street and Broadway shortly after 8:30 p.m. to get up onto the Nimitz Freeway, bringing traffic to a complete halt in both directions. Some protesters set off fireworks, played music and sat with arms linked to block cars. Some drivers expressed support for the demonstrators by honking along with their chants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported the freeway reopened shortly before 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride spoke to reporters on Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Ben McBride speaks to reporters on Interstate 880 on July 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Ben McBride speaks to reporters on Interstate 880 on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We are here on the freeway, shutting it down, calling for Mayor Libby Schaaf and [Alameda County District Attorney] Nancy O'Malley to come out here,\" he said. \"The people have demands for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride said O'Malley should charge the officers involved in sexual exploitation and that Schaaf should fire them. He also called for more information about the investigations to be made public through a truth and reconciliation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland protest is one of many that took place across the United States after the fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ClydeDon/status/751276608791601152/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A massive protest against police violence swept through downtown Oakland on Thursday evening, with hundreds of marchers taking over the Nimitz Freeway and shutting it down virtually all night in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the crowd, which appeared to number in the thousands, expressed anger at fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand on the median divider on Interstate 880 on July 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/freewayprotest1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand on the median divider on Interstate 880 in Oakland on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s bad. It’s just a horrible feeling,\" said a man who gave his name as Q. George. He said the bombardment of online videos involving the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a> in Minnesota this week was hard to bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just to know that that goes on and then they don’t get prosecuted afterward,\" he said. \"They might get arrested, and they might even get put on trial, but they don’t get convicted. Justice is not served.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also voiced their anger over a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/30/contra-costa-deputy-resigns-amid-growing-sexual-misconduct-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving dozens of officers from multiple police agencies and the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Later in the evening, some demonstrators sprayed graffiti across the OPD building and a set of doors to the building were smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has seen a quick succession of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">three police chiefs\u003c/a> in June as \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">news reports\u003c/a> revealed that Oakland officers allegedly had sex with an underage woman exploited in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013361 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Juanita Alvarez of Napa, brother and sister Leroy Gainey and LaRay Gainey hold up protest signs outside of the Oakland Police Department Administration building on July 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/threeprotesters1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita Alvarez of Napa, and brother and sister Leroy Gainey and LaRay Gainey, hold up protest signs outside the Oakland Police Department administration building on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exie Adams, from Davis, explained why she made the trip to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a black person and as a black woman, understanding the issue and prevalence of police killing, understanding how it's affected my community, how could I not come?\" Adams said. She added she was outraged and disappointed over the involvement of so many law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marchers chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"no justice, no peace, no racist police,\" as they left Frank Ogawa Plaza and moved down Broadway to the Police Department\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred marchers walked up the off-ramp at the intersection of Sixth Street and Broadway shortly after 8:30 p.m. to get up onto the Nimitz Freeway, bringing traffic to a complete halt in both directions. Some protesters set off fireworks, played music and sat with arms linked to block cars. Some drivers expressed support for the demonstrators by honking along with their chants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported the freeway reopened shortly before 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride spoke to reporters on Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/McBride1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. 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"content": "\u003cp>From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\">Big Think\u003c/a>” series, we meet \u003ca href=\"http://patrissecullors.com/\">Patrisse Cullors\u003c/a>. She is the director of truth and reinvestment at the \u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/\">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> in Oakland and one of the co-founders of \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>. Her Big Think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Build a national network of communities to respond to law enforcement violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246038799″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors received a $500,000 racial justice grant from Google to help make her Big Think become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Black Lives Matter movement started with a simple love note. It was the night the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/13/201918229/judge-to-zimmerman-you-have-no-further-business-with-the-court\">jury acquitted George Zimmerman\u003c/a> of all charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during an altercation in a gated Florida community. Her friend, Alicia Garza, wrote a series of posts on Facebook that were intended to be an open letter to black people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Where those folks at saying we are in post-racial America? where those folks at saying we have moved past race and that black folks in particular need to get over it? the sad part is, there’s a section of America who is cheering and celebrating right now. and that makes me sick to my stomach. we GOTTA get it together y’all. Our lives are hanging in the balance. Young black boys in this country are not safe. Black men in this country are not safe. This verdict will create many more George Zimmermans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And also:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cullors says she saw that love note and hash-tagged it. She then “used that hashtag over the next several hours to really just love on black people, and pretty quickly thereafter myself and Alicia spoke and said we need to build this out as a project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cullors, #BlackLivesMatter is an affirmation that embraces the resistance and resilience of black people. It is also a rallying cry to defend black life and create successful black futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patrisse Cullors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A movement began to bubble up, as videos suggesting the use of excessive police force on unarmed black men went viral. There was the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man-dies-after-he-is-put-in-chokehold-during-arrest.html?_r=0\">Eric Garner\u003c/a> and then the fatal shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/08/10/339334625/st-louis-police-black-teen-shot-in-altercation-with-officers\">Michael Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention, the deaths of black women like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/in-detroit-protests-of-shooting-of-woman-who-sought-help.html\">Renisha McBride\u003c/a>, who was shot on the porch of a suburban home when she sought help after she had car trouble, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424909760/death-of-woman-found-hanged-in-texas-jail-cell-will-be-investigated-as-murder\">Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was found dead in her jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly people all over the world were talking about Black Lives Matter and using the hashtag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about all the other people who face law enforcement violence — who don’t have a video. Where do they turn?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Should Black and Brown Communities Handle Law Enforcement Violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Cullors says, she witnessed a significant amount of policing and police repression in her Van Nuys neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brother was almost killed by the Sheriff’s Department when he was 19 years old inside of the L.A. County jails. And my mother had nowhere to go. She called the Sheriff’s Department over and over again and they sent her in circles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience is part of the reason why Cullors wants to create a network of rapid responders to help people deal with law enforcement violence. That includes violence at the hand of the police, FBI, ICE officers, California Highway Patrol and correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Jr3BGiagOQNhfhKXPRC3OReUOIUrFLiQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what to do if an earthquake happens in California. People know what to do if a tornado happens. 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Allies can definitely play a role. But really the point is people who are directly impacted, and that often looks like black and brown people, and poor people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She imagines the first responders could help victims file a complaint against the police. And if the complaint isn’t getting attention, they could help stage a protest in the neighborhood or organize to demand that the officer is fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/caravan/\">mobilized the teams\u003c/a>. They are all over the state, from Sacramento to Orange County (and in between in Oakland, Stockton, Fresno, Salinas, Los Angeles and San Diego). The next step is to train the teams of rapid responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Platform to Focus Black Voices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She’s also creating a social media platform specific to issues of law enforcement violence and mass incarceration. It will expand the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/\">Mobile Justice app\u003c/a> that the ACLU and Ella Baker Center created. It allows people to send a recording of questionable police activity directly to the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/01/06/african-americans-and-technology-use/\">We use Twitter and Facebook\u003c/a> to talk about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/19/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race\">our stories\u003c/a>, but we don’t own Twitter or Facebook. We need a social media platform that’s owned by the community, sourced by the community and where we know that if we put up our own images and videos, that we own it. This social media platform can’t bring it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors hopes that one day people all over the world will use the platform to organize. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\">Big Think\u003c/a>” series, we meet \u003ca href=\"http://patrissecullors.com/\">Patrisse Cullors\u003c/a>. She is the director of truth and reinvestment at the \u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/\">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> in Oakland and one of the co-founders of \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>. Her Big Think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Build a national network of communities to respond to law enforcement violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='’166′'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246038799″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246038799″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors received a $500,000 racial justice grant from Google to help make her Big Think become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Black Lives Matter movement started with a simple love note. It was the night the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/13/201918229/judge-to-zimmerman-you-have-no-further-business-with-the-court\">jury acquitted George Zimmerman\u003c/a> of all charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during an altercation in a gated Florida community. Her friend, Alicia Garza, wrote a series of posts on Facebook that were intended to be an open letter to black people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Where those folks at saying we are in post-racial America? where those folks at saying we have moved past race and that black folks in particular need to get over it? the sad part is, there’s a section of America who is cheering and celebrating right now. and that makes me sick to my stomach. we GOTTA get it together y’all. Our lives are hanging in the balance. Young black boys in this country are not safe. Black men in this country are not safe. This verdict will create many more George Zimmermans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And also:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cullors says she saw that love note and hash-tagged it. She then “used that hashtag over the next several hours to really just love on black people, and pretty quickly thereafter myself and Alicia spoke and said we need to build this out as a project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is also a rallying cry to defend black life and create successful black futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patrisse Cullors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A movement began to bubble up, as videos suggesting the use of excessive police force on unarmed black men went viral. There was the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man-dies-after-he-is-put-in-chokehold-during-arrest.html?_r=0\">Eric Garner\u003c/a> and then the fatal shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/08/10/339334625/st-louis-police-black-teen-shot-in-altercation-with-officers\">Michael Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention, the deaths of black women like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/in-detroit-protests-of-shooting-of-woman-who-sought-help.html\">Renisha McBride\u003c/a>, who was shot on the porch of a suburban home when she sought help after she had car trouble, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424909760/death-of-woman-found-hanged-in-texas-jail-cell-will-be-investigated-as-murder\">Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was found dead in her jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly people all over the world were talking about Black Lives Matter and using the hashtag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about all the other people who face law enforcement violence — who don’t have a video. Where do they turn?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Should Black and Brown Communities Handle Law Enforcement Violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Cullors says, she witnessed a significant amount of policing and police repression in her Van Nuys neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brother was almost killed by the Sheriff’s Department when he was 19 years old inside of the L.A. County jails. And my mother had nowhere to go. She called the Sheriff’s Department over and over again and they sent her in circles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience is part of the reason why Cullors wants to create a network of rapid responders to help people deal with law enforcement violence. That includes violence at the hand of the police, FBI, ICE officers, California Highway Patrol and correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what to do if an earthquake happens in California. People know what to do if a tornado happens. But what happens when your loved one is killed by the police? When your loved one is killed in a jail cell?” Cullors says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what to do. We’ve seen it time and time again. Families are at a loss. They don’t know who to talk to, they don’t know who to go to because, you don’t go to your murderer to have them give you justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and brown communities can’t rely on law enforcement to protect black and brown bodies, says Cullors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your loved one is harmed or killed by law enforcement, if they’re illegally arrested, if there’s a raid on your home, you will be able to call a hotline number that will be staffed 24/7 that can help you navigate the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes her idea different is that the rapid responders will be people who live in the community and understand what it’s like to face law enforcement violence firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a multiracial justice team. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday, Jan. 20:\u003c/strong> The California Highway Patrol is acknowledging that the two dozen protesters arrested Monday afternoon for blocking the Bay Bridge were handcuffed for six hours after they were detained, but says the treatment was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers had complained Tuesday that the arrestees, who shut down the westbound lanes near Yerba Buena Island for about an hour on Martin Luther King Day, had been mistreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Birdsong, spokeswoman for Black.Seed, the group that organized the action, said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201601190900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum program\u003c/a> that handcuffing the detainees for six hours was \"pretty abusive and terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were nonviolent protesters, and the police could have taken care of their bodies,\" Birdsong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP spokesman Sgt. Vu Williams told KQED's Sara Hossaini the protesters were held in plastic zip ties for the six hours they were in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we never received any complaints while they were here of any injuries,\" Williams said. \"We did everything we could not to make that situation worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, Jan. 18:\u003c/strong> A small group of protesters -- an offshoot of the Black Lives Matters movement -- blocked westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge on Monday afternoon, the climax to a day of demonstrations that activists say are intended to lay claim to the activist legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Martin Luther King Day protests included a rally and march in Oakland and Emeryville that focused on police violence and shut down one major entrance and exit to Interstate 80. In San Francisco, demonstrators demanding that police be held accountable for the Dec. 2 killing of Mario Woods shouted down Mayor Ed Lee as he began a King Day speech. The mayor left the podium as the heckling intensified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge shutdown took place just before 4 p.m. and appeared to be carefully coordinated, with cars aligning themselves across all five lanes of traffic on the westbound span east of Yerba Buena Island, then slowing to a halt. A handful of demonstrators chained themselves to the five vehicles that blockaded the bridge. The vehicles, too, were chained to together to complicate the task of removing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" ids=\"10838064,10838063,10838084,10838067,10838065,10838074,10838066,10838086,10838087\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All traffic headed from the East Bay to San Francisco was halted, and major delays were also created for eastbound traffic. The blockading vehicles were moved out of the traffic lanes by 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters identified themselves in social media posts as members of Black.Seed, which describes itself as a \"black queer liberation collective.\" From \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-blog/2016/1/18/black-queer-liberation-collective-blackseed-shuts-down-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\">the group's announcement\u003c/a>, posted on the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today, January 18th, Black.Seed has shut down the west-bound span of Bay Bridge. Cars are blocking lanes and individuals are chained across lanes to demand investment in the wellbeing of Black people. Motorists on the Bay Bridge can follow the action by tuning their radio to 107.9, a temporary radio station broadcasting the event. The action can also be followed on Twitter: @APTPaction\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few years, we have seen San Francisco and Oakland destroyed by police murders, rising housing costs, rapid gentrification, and apathetic city officials. Last year, we saw dozens of police murders throughout the Bay Area; since June of 2015 in Oakland alone there have been eight Black men murdered by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Black.Seed celebrates and honors the radical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Historically, our people have had to take drastic and dramatic measures to highlight the systemic abuses that harm our communities. 51 years ago, those who came before us participated in direct action in Selma, Alabama, to speak out against the harms of racism and oppression. It is this very spirit of resistance that flows through our lives and actions, in the Black Out Friday, Black Brunches, and highway shutdowns of today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Black.Seed spokeswoman Mia Birdsong told KQED's Andrew Stelzer that the Martin Luther King protesters' aim is to \"take him back from the whitewashed, sanitized, only 'I Have a Dream' rainbow coalition version of King and to really recognize that his legacy is a legacy of folks taking direct action and protesting and agitating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birdsong said 40 to 50 people had taken part in the Bay Bridge blockade. Police arrested 24 protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For us it was about kind of disrupting business as usual,\" Birdsong said. \"The state of Oakland and San Francisco for people of color, for black folks, for other marginalized people is a constant disruption. \"Our lives are being disrupted all the time by white supremacy and racism, and we wanted to do something that was going to be disruptive for a much larger group of folks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea/status/689237240325668864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our priority is always and, in this instance, the safety of the protesters, the safety of the CHP, the safety of people in traffic,\" said Leah Robinson-Leach, Caltrans spokeswoman for the Bay Bridge. \"And we are doing everything we can to move this along”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson-Leach, Caltrans spokeswoman for the Bay Bridge, told KTVU the blockade \"was highly unusual, but quite peaceful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it is an inconvenience,\" Robinson-Leach said. \"From the moment we were aware, we put the processes in place to address this ... quickly and effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day in San Francisco, demonstrators appeared at the city's annual King Day gathering at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The protesters were part of a continuing campaign to keep public attention on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">the Dec. 2 police shooting of Mario Woods, 26,\u003c/a> in the city's Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Hecklers-chase-S-F-Mayor-Ed-Lee-from-King-Day-6767176.php\" target=\"_blank\">an account\u003c/a> from Steve Rubenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle of what happened when San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee began addressing the crowd:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lee had barely finished welcoming MLK Day celebrators to San Francisco when the small group stood about halfway back in the audience and began chanting slogans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your police chief needs to be held accountable,” one heckler shouted. “You think Martin Luther King would be proud of you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Lee tried to wait out the shouting and at one point broke in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ladies and gentlemen, I am also working for a better city,” he said. “I appreciate your listening to me. I heard you. May I speak now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it became clear that the hecklers weren’t going to stand down or be removed, Lee departed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sara Hossaini, Andrew Stelzer and Marisa Lagos contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">I\u003c/span> know thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands, were put out by Monday afternoon's Martin Luther King Day blockade on the Bay Bridge. Or at least upset that the \u003cem>one day\u003c/em> they might have expected light traffic, their trip across the span was disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I'm also remembering one veteran of past human rights struggles who would have loved the protest -- put on by a black gay liberation group called Black.Seed -- and probably would have wanted to be in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That person was \u003ca href=\"http://infospigot.typepad.com/infospigot_the_chronicles/2003/12/goodbye_uncle_b.html\" target=\"_blank\">my uncle, Bill Hogan\u003c/a>, an activist Catholic priest in the Chicago archdiocese through a succession of movements, starting with black civil rights in the 1950s and '60s and continuing through the fight to end the Vietnam War, the nuclear disarmament campaigns of the 1970s and '80s and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill paid a price for his unswerving commitment. He was suspended without pay for defying orders to quit the streets (and stop getting arrested) and tend to his pastoral duties. Of course, he thought his flock was everywhere on the streets. While he was on the outs with the archdiocese, \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1973/11/04/page/228/article/our-father-who-art-a-cabbie\" target=\"_blank\">he drove a cab\u003c/a>, for years, to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let's get back to the Bay Bridge shutdown on Monday, called as part of an ongoing effort by Black Lives Matter groups and allies to, as they put it, reclaim the activist legacy of Martin Luther King. How can I be so sure Bill would have embraced the protest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">B\u003c/span>ack on the evening of May 8, 1972, President Richard Nixon announced he had just ordered the mining of several North Vietnamese ports and the bombing of the country's rail links with China, moves intended to pressure the government in Hanoi to return to peace talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-war activists in the United States took to the streets the next day. One group in Chicago went a little further than that. They decided they'd blockade the morning commute, or at least part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Hogan, my uncle, along with maybe 30 compatriots from an anti-war group, climbed into a small fleet of cars and steered them into the eastbound lanes of Chicago's Eisenhower Expressway, the main commute route into downtown from the western suburbs. Once the cars were abreast of each other, they slowed to a stop. Then Bill and the other drivers got out, disabled the ignitions, and waited for the police to arrive. Well, in Bill's case, he'd tipped off a radio reporter, who arrived on the scene for a live interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it was a protest virtually identical to the one that stopped Monday afternoon traffic on the westbound Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the results? Well, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> war ended, though it would be foolish to think that one protest moved the needle much. But in Bill Hogan's world, there was no such thing as taking a pass when it was time to take a stand. And he would have pointed out the expressway action didn't happen in a vacuum -- it was part of a continuum of protests that went on for years and involved millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, he disrupted a planned public discussion on the war in which he was supposed to face off with two ROTC colonels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look,\" he said afterward, \"this war is not really a debatable question. ... We succeeded in getting everyone in the audience arguing over what we did. That's what will finally end this war, everyone arguing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10837193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 736px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10837193\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10837193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49.png\" alt=\"The Rev. Bill Hogan is arrested during a school desegregation protest in Chicago, circa 1965. \" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49.png 736w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Bill Hogan is arrested during a school desegregation protest in Chicago, circa 1965.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">Y\u003c/span>ou need look no further than our Facebook posts on Monday's protest -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews/posts/953583468049384\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10153099222316191\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> -- to see that the Bay Bridge shutdown got people arguing. And angry. Most comments express some degree of outrage at the blockade, often alloyed with sentiments along the lines of, \"I support the cause, but not when idiotic people do something like \u003cem>this\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm in no position to say how far the Bay Bridge blockade bends the arc of the moral universe toward justice. But I can say that the Martin Luther King Day protesters are right: King's career was about confronting injustice directly -- and discomfort and inconvenience to the world at large was not a consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1956, troubled by violence that forced the first black student enrolled at the University of Alabama to leave campus, King preached \u003ca href=\"http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/when_peace_becomes_obnoxious_sermon_delivered_on_18_march_1956/\" target=\"_blank\">a sermon\u003c/a> reflecting on the kind of \"peace\" achieved by knuckling under to the demands of white supremacy. He said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a very profound passage which has been often misunderstood, Jesus utters this: He says, “Think not that I am come to bring peace. I come not to bring peace but a sword.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... What He is saying is: “I come not to bring this peace of escapism, this peace that fails to confront the real issues of life, the peace that makes for stagnant complacency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then He says, “I come to bring a sword” -- not a physical sword. Whenever I come, a conflict is precipitated between the old and the new, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. I come to declare war over injustice. I come to declare war on evil. Peace is not merely the absence of some negative force -–war, tension, confusion -- but it is the presence of some positive force -–justice, goodwill, the power of the kingdom of God.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And King concluded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... Yes, it is true that if the Negro accepts his place, accepts exploitation and injustice, there will be peace. But it would be a peace boiled down to stagnant complacency, deadening passivity, and if peace means this, I don’t want peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If peace means accepting second-class citizenship, I don’t want it.\u003cbr>\nIf peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it.\u003cbr>\nIf peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace.\u003cbr>\nIf peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in a passive, nonviolent manner, we must revolt against this peace.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Once the cars were abreast of each other, they slowed to a stop. Then Bill and the other drivers got out, disabled the ignitions, and waited for the police to arrive. Well, in Bill's case, he'd tipped off a radio reporter, who arrived on the scene for a live interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it was a protest virtually identical to the one that stopped Monday afternoon traffic on the westbound Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the results? Well, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> war ended, though it would be foolish to think that one protest moved the needle much. But in Bill Hogan's world, there was no such thing as taking a pass when it was time to take a stand. And he would have pointed out the expressway action didn't happen in a vacuum -- it was part of a continuum of protests that went on for years and involved millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, he disrupted a planned public discussion on the war in which he was supposed to face off with two ROTC colonels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look,\" he said afterward, \"this war is not really a debatable question. ... We succeeded in getting everyone in the audience arguing over what we did. That's what will finally end this war, everyone arguing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10837193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 736px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10837193\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10837193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-18-21.48.49.png\" alt=\"The Rev. 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"content": "\u003cp>The country remembers the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. More than four decades after his death, many people see the Black Lives Matter movement as the modern incarnation of the drive for human dignity and legal standing that Dr. King embodied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, including members of an earlier generation of activists, find fault with the group, seeing it as an aimless, formless group that still lacks direction and follow-through. Meanwhile, younger activists sometimes see their seniors as too narrow in their focus and rigid in their methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others ask whether the mere fact that another protest movement has arisen is a sign that earlier efforts have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To delve into King's legacy in modern activism, NPR's Michel Martin turned to the Rev. \u003ca href=\"http://www.naacpnc.org/president\">William Barber II\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://patrissecullors.com/bio/\">Patrisse Cullors\u003c/a>, two prominent activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, is best known for leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=190756394\">Moral Monday protests\u003c/a> across the state in 2013. Cullors, an artist from Los Angeles, is considered one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cullors:\u003c/strong> Part of our work in this generation has been about reclaiming MLK, and the ways that this government, in a lot of ways, has totally whitewashed his legacy. As a young kid growing up, what we were given was the \"[I Have A] Dream\" speech. We weren't given his grass-roots organizing, we weren't given that King was a local organizer. We weren't given everything he did up until the Voting Rights Act. And when I joined this movement as a young person, I realized, oh, King is so much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barber:\u003c/strong> I see the legacy of Dr. King as even beyond the civil rights movement. I see the legacy connected to the Old Testament prophets who stood up for the marginalized and against injustice, to the social gospel movement that stood up and asked a question, \"What would Jesus do in the face of terrible economic inequities and damage to workers?\" Right on through to the second Reconstruction, which I call the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, that intersectionality — fusion politics: bringing together blacks and whites and Latinos, and Jews and Christians and Muslims. But doing it in a way that takes race and class seriously and does not separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Black Lives Matter addressing institutional change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cullors\u003c/strong>: Folks have seen the protesting and the marching, the arrests. But folks haven't actually sat down with movement leaders to say, \"And what else are you doing?\" The negotiations with mayors, with chiefs of police, with county sheriffs — people are missing the negotiations because that's not what gets highlighted in the media. And I think what we ask of folks is to be patient. Instead of heavily critiquing us, join us and help us strategize around what's next and what's possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the success and failure of historical movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barber:\u003c/strong> We are in a reality right now where we have less voting rights today than we had Aug. 6, 1965, after the \u003cem>Shelby\u003c/em> decision and the inaction of the Congress. But that's what movements do. This country is constantly going through reconstruction. And there are times when we have to do two things at the same time. We have to protect what was won and expand. So we have to fight in the courts, we have to fight in the street, we have to fight in the legislative halls, and we have to fight at the ballot box. Democracy is hard; it is not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cullors:\u003c/strong> I'm very grateful that I'm in this fight. And I've sat with civil rights leaders and I've sat with former [Black] Panthers who say, \"I'm sorry, we failed you.\" And I say to them \"No, you didn't. You've set the standard, and we are continuing to move that forward.\" We can't expect to undo 500 years. We just can't expect to undo it in three or four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barber:\u003c/strong> It says more about the failure of America, but it also says something about the greatness of movements and the seeds that were sown by Ella Baker and Dr. King and Rosa Parks. We are their children. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother said to me one day, \"Listen, we fought too hard for you to stop. You better fight, you better stand up.\" That's why our mantra is, no matter what they say to us, no matter how many death threats we get, no matter what politicians do, we are going forward together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Decades+Since+His+Death%2C+MLK%27s+Shadow+Still+Shapes+Today%27s+Activism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomorrow is the day the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr., so we thought this was a good time to reflect on how his legacy is playing out today. Many people see the Black Lives Matter movement as the modern incarnation of the drive for human dignity and legal standing that Dr. King embodied. But others, including some members of the earlier generation of activists, sometimes find fault with the group, seeing it as an aimless, formless group that still lacks direction and follow-through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, younger activists sometimes see their seniors as too narrow in their focus and rigid in their methods. And others ask whether the mere fact that another protest movement has arisen is a sign that earlier efforts have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've called two prominent activists who're both seen as acting in the tradition of Dr. King's legacy of grass-roots activism to reflect on these important questions. Rev. William Barber II is senior pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C. He's the head of the North Carolina NAACP, but he's probably best known for leading Moral Monday protests across North Carolina, considered the largest racial justice rally in the South since Selma. He's with us from his church in Goldsboro. Welcome, Reverend Barber, thanks so much for speaking with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WILLIAM BARBER II: So glad to be here this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: And here with us in our Washington, D.C., studios is Patrisse Cullors. She is an artist and activist from Los Angeles, and she's considered one of the founders of the Black Live Matters movement. Welcome, Patrisse. Thanks so much for speaking with us again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PATRISSE CULLORS: Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: First, I wanted to ask each of you if you agree with my characterization. Do you see yourself as part of the next generation of civil rights activists or something else entirely? Patrisse, do you want to start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: I definitely see myself as the next generation of civil rights activists. I think part of our work in this generation has been about reclaiming MLK and the ways that this government, in a lot of ways, has totally whitewashed his legacy. As a young kid growing up, what we were given was the dream speech. We weren't given his grass-roots organizing. We weren't given that King was a local organizer. We weren't given everything he did up until the Voting Rights Act. And when I joined this movement as a young person, I realized, oh, King is so much more. Look at these speeches. Look at what he was doing. And as the Black Lives Matter movement started, it was really clear to many of us that we had to reclaim that legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, your personal biography is similar to Dr. King's in the sense that, you know, you are an ordained minister. You do lead an institution. You are, you know, have a kind of a traditional family life, you know, or role in your community. So I would assume that perhaps that connection to the King legacy is more natural for you. Do you see it that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Well, I don't know, but I see the legacy of Dr. King is even beyond the civil rights movement. I see the legacy connected to the Old Testament prophets who stood up for the marginalized and against injustice to the social gospel movement that stood up and asked the question - what would Jesus do in the face of terrible economic inequities and damage to workers? - right on through to the second Reconstruction, which I call the civil rights movement. You know, that intersectionality - fusion politics - bringing together blacks and whites and Latinos and Jews and Christians and Muslims, but doing it in a way that takes race and class seriously and does not separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: So, Patrisse, let me get to the intergenerational critique. There are those who argue that Black Lives Matter is good at getting people out, but not getting people in, by which I mean that so far, at least - that the movement has been good at getting people fired from jobs. They've been good at getting people indicted, even, or calling attention to people who've done wrong, but not very good at forming a strategy that would change the institutions that caused the harm that you see. And I want to ask how you've - what do you say to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: I guess what I want to argue is that folks have seen the protesting and the marching, the arrests, but folks haven't actually sat down with movement leaders to say, what else are you doing? The negotiations with mayors, with chiefs of police, with county sheriffs - people are missing the negotiations because that's not what gets highlighted in the media. And I think what we ask of folks is to be patient. Instead of heavily critiquing us, join us and help us strategize around what's next and what's possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, what do you say about the slate of issues on which you now focus, like the whole question of voting rights, like the whole question of, you know, workplace issues. I mean, people forget that Dr. King was in Memphis...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: ...Because of the sanitation workers' strike...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: ...Over wages and working conditions. And some people look at that and say - is that evidence that the earlier movement actually did not succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: No. It's evident that America is always catching the hiccups. And when it comes to public policy and regressing, yes, we are in a reality right now where we have less voting rights today than we had August 6, 1965, after the Shelby decision and the inaction of the Congress. But that's what movements do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is country constantly going through reconstruction. And there are times when we have to do two things at the same time. We have to protect what was won and expand. So we have to fight in the courts. We have to fight in the street. We have to fight in the legislative hall. And we have to fight at the ballot box. Democracy is hard. It is not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Patrisse, how does that sit with you, as a young woman really just starting your life? How does that sit with you? In fact, is it OK to mention you're about to become a mother? Does that feel optimistic or pessimistic to hear that this work is still the same work in some ways?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: It doesn't feel optimistic or pessimistic. It feels sobering. And, you know, as a child who grew up during the war on drugs and witnessed devastation of my community and black communities at large by the police state and the prison state, I am very grateful that I'm in this fight. And I've sat with, you know, civil rights leaders, and I've sat with former Panthers who say, I'm sorry. We failed you. And I say to them, no, you didn't. You've set the standard. And we are continuing to move that forward. We can't expect to undo 500 years. We just can't expect to undo it in three or four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, what about you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Well, it says more about the failure of America, but it also says something about the greatness of movements and the seeds that were sown by Ella Baker and Dr. King and Rosa Parks. We are their children. And so when I hear about Patrisse's behavior, that makes me want to fight. When I think about the fact I was born two days after the March on Washington - and to hear my mother say to me one day, listen, we fought too hard for you to stop. You better fight. You better stand up. And I - that's why our mantra is no matter what they say to us, no matter how many death threats we get, no matter what politicians do, we are going forward together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Well, we have to leave it there for now. Hopefully, we'll talk again. That was the Reverend William Barber II. He's president of the North Carolina NAACP. He's also the leader of a group called repairersofthebreach.org, and he joined us from Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C. Patrisse Cullors was also with us. She's a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She's considered one of the originators of the Black Lives Matter hashtag. She joined us in our Washington, D.C., studios. She's director of the Truth and Reinvestment Campaign at the Ella Baker Center. Thank you both so much for speaking with us, and happy Martin Luther King Day to you both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: Thank you so much. This was great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: God bless you. Love you all. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I see the legacy connected to the Old Testament prophets who stood up for the marginalized and against injustice, to the social gospel movement that stood up and asked a question, \"What would Jesus do in the face of terrible economic inequities and damage to workers?\" Right on through to the second Reconstruction, which I call the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, that intersectionality — fusion politics: bringing together blacks and whites and Latinos, and Jews and Christians and Muslims. But doing it in a way that takes race and class seriously and does not separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Black Lives Matter addressing institutional change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cullors\u003c/strong>: Folks have seen the protesting and the marching, the arrests. But folks haven't actually sat down with movement leaders to say, \"And what else are you doing?\" The negotiations with mayors, with chiefs of police, with county sheriffs — people are missing the negotiations because that's not what gets highlighted in the media. And I think what we ask of folks is to be patient. Instead of heavily critiquing us, join us and help us strategize around what's next and what's possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the success and failure of historical movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barber:\u003c/strong> We are in a reality right now where we have less voting rights today than we had Aug. 6, 1965, after the \u003cem>Shelby\u003c/em> decision and the inaction of the Congress. But that's what movements do. This country is constantly going through reconstruction. And there are times when we have to do two things at the same time. We have to protect what was won and expand. So we have to fight in the courts, we have to fight in the street, we have to fight in the legislative halls, and we have to fight at the ballot box. Democracy is hard; it is not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cullors:\u003c/strong> I'm very grateful that I'm in this fight. And I've sat with civil rights leaders and I've sat with former [Black] Panthers who say, \"I'm sorry, we failed you.\" And I say to them \"No, you didn't. You've set the standard, and we are continuing to move that forward.\" We can't expect to undo 500 years. We just can't expect to undo it in three or four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barber:\u003c/strong> It says more about the failure of America, but it also says something about the greatness of movements and the seeds that were sown by Ella Baker and Dr. King and Rosa Parks. We are their children. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother said to me one day, \"Listen, we fought too hard for you to stop. You better fight, you better stand up.\" That's why our mantra is, no matter what they say to us, no matter how many death threats we get, no matter what politicians do, we are going forward together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Decades+Since+His+Death%2C+MLK%27s+Shadow+Still+Shapes+Today%27s+Activism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomorrow is the day the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr., so we thought this was a good time to reflect on how his legacy is playing out today. Many people see the Black Lives Matter movement as the modern incarnation of the drive for human dignity and legal standing that Dr. King embodied. But others, including some members of the earlier generation of activists, sometimes find fault with the group, seeing it as an aimless, formless group that still lacks direction and follow-through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, younger activists sometimes see their seniors as too narrow in their focus and rigid in their methods. And others ask whether the mere fact that another protest movement has arisen is a sign that earlier efforts have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've called two prominent activists who're both seen as acting in the tradition of Dr. King's legacy of grass-roots activism to reflect on these important questions. Rev. William Barber II is senior pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C. He's the head of the North Carolina NAACP, but he's probably best known for leading Moral Monday protests across North Carolina, considered the largest racial justice rally in the South since Selma. He's with us from his church in Goldsboro. Welcome, Reverend Barber, thanks so much for speaking with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WILLIAM BARBER II: So glad to be here this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: And here with us in our Washington, D.C., studios is Patrisse Cullors. She is an artist and activist from Los Angeles, and she's considered one of the founders of the Black Live Matters movement. Welcome, Patrisse. Thanks so much for speaking with us again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PATRISSE CULLORS: Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: First, I wanted to ask each of you if you agree with my characterization. Do you see yourself as part of the next generation of civil rights activists or something else entirely? Patrisse, do you want to start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: I definitely see myself as the next generation of civil rights activists. I think part of our work in this generation has been about reclaiming MLK and the ways that this government, in a lot of ways, has totally whitewashed his legacy. As a young kid growing up, what we were given was the dream speech. We weren't given his grass-roots organizing. We weren't given that King was a local organizer. We weren't given everything he did up until the Voting Rights Act. And when I joined this movement as a young person, I realized, oh, King is so much more. Look at these speeches. Look at what he was doing. And as the Black Lives Matter movement started, it was really clear to many of us that we had to reclaim that legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, your personal biography is similar to Dr. King's in the sense that, you know, you are an ordained minister. You do lead an institution. You are, you know, have a kind of a traditional family life, you know, or role in your community. So I would assume that perhaps that connection to the King legacy is more natural for you. Do you see it that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Well, I don't know, but I see the legacy of Dr. King is even beyond the civil rights movement. I see the legacy connected to the Old Testament prophets who stood up for the marginalized and against injustice to the social gospel movement that stood up and asked the question - what would Jesus do in the face of terrible economic inequities and damage to workers? - right on through to the second Reconstruction, which I call the civil rights movement. You know, that intersectionality - fusion politics - bringing together blacks and whites and Latinos and Jews and Christians and Muslims, but doing it in a way that takes race and class seriously and does not separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: So, Patrisse, let me get to the intergenerational critique. There are those who argue that Black Lives Matter is good at getting people out, but not getting people in, by which I mean that so far, at least - that the movement has been good at getting people fired from jobs. They've been good at getting people indicted, even, or calling attention to people who've done wrong, but not very good at forming a strategy that would change the institutions that caused the harm that you see. And I want to ask how you've - what do you say to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: I guess what I want to argue is that folks have seen the protesting and the marching, the arrests, but folks haven't actually sat down with movement leaders to say, what else are you doing? The negotiations with mayors, with chiefs of police, with county sheriffs - people are missing the negotiations because that's not what gets highlighted in the media. And I think what we ask of folks is to be patient. Instead of heavily critiquing us, join us and help us strategize around what's next and what's possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, what do you say about the slate of issues on which you now focus, like the whole question of voting rights, like the whole question of, you know, workplace issues. I mean, people forget that Dr. King was in Memphis...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: ...Because of the sanitation workers' strike...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: ...Over wages and working conditions. And some people look at that and say - is that evidence that the earlier movement actually did not succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: No. It's evident that America is always catching the hiccups. And when it comes to public policy and regressing, yes, we are in a reality right now where we have less voting rights today than we had August 6, 1965, after the Shelby decision and the inaction of the Congress. But that's what movements do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is country constantly going through reconstruction. And there are times when we have to do two things at the same time. We have to protect what was won and expand. So we have to fight in the courts. We have to fight in the street. We have to fight in the legislative hall. And we have to fight at the ballot box. Democracy is hard. It is not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Patrisse, how does that sit with you, as a young woman really just starting your life? How does that sit with you? In fact, is it OK to mention you're about to become a mother? Does that feel optimistic or pessimistic to hear that this work is still the same work in some ways?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: It doesn't feel optimistic or pessimistic. It feels sobering. And, you know, as a child who grew up during the war on drugs and witnessed devastation of my community and black communities at large by the police state and the prison state, I am very grateful that I'm in this fight. And I've sat with, you know, civil rights leaders, and I've sat with former Panthers who say, I'm sorry. We failed you. And I say to them, no, you didn't. You've set the standard. And we are continuing to move that forward. We can't expect to undo 500 years. We just can't expect to undo it in three or four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Reverend Barber, what about you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARBER: Well, it says more about the failure of America, but it also says something about the greatness of movements and the seeds that were sown by Ella Baker and Dr. King and Rosa Parks. We are their children. And so when I hear about Patrisse's behavior, that makes me want to fight. When I think about the fact I was born two days after the March on Washington - and to hear my mother say to me one day, listen, we fought too hard for you to stop. You better fight. You better stand up. And I - that's why our mantra is no matter what they say to us, no matter how many death threats we get, no matter what politicians do, we are going forward together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MARTIN: Well, we have to leave it there for now. Hopefully, we'll talk again. That was the Reverend William Barber II. He's president of the North Carolina NAACP. He's also the leader of a group called repairersofthebreach.org, and he joined us from Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C. Patrisse Cullors was also with us. She's a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She's considered one of the originators of the Black Lives Matter hashtag. She joined us in our Washington, D.C., studios. She's director of the Truth and Reinvestment Campaign at the Ella Baker Center. Thank you both so much for speaking with us, and happy Martin Luther King Day to you both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CULLORS: Thank you so much. This was great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They get the emergency call, decide what information is relevant and what priority the call should receive. The Tamir Rice call was given the highest. If dispatchers send the wrong information it can compromise everything. It’s one reason the job is so stressful, according to Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I can’t even imagine what that dispatcher was thinking.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Its not to say dispatchers don't make mistakes, because they do. They make mistakes. They're human,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in her 30-plus years in the profession, Harris can't recall such a critical mistake. Harris said any and all details are important for responding officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenia Oliver knows this all too well. She supervised Oakland police dispatch calls during the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/oaklands-oikos-struggles-with-the-anniversary-of-a-massacre\" target=\"_blank\">mass shooting at Oikos University\u003c/a> in 2012, when seven people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not up to us to decide if [a detail is] pertinent or not,” said Oliver. “The officer has to have it, and then they can make their best judgment call based on the information that they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispatchers and officers work as a team, and one of a dispatcher’s top priorities is officer safety. The fact the 911 caller in the Rice case wasn’t positive the gun was fake can present a problem for dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be more afraid that the officer would put their guard down thinking that from the caller,” said Michelle Bauer, an Oakland dispatcher for six years. But Bauer said she would still give officers the caller’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s up to the officer to decide how they're going to approach the call or the person out in the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Tamir Rice case, three of the \u003ca href=\"http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/Investigation-Into-Death-of-Tamir-Rice.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">county prosecutor's experts\u003c/a> have concluded the shooting was reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those experts, \u003ca href=\"http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_prosecutor/en-US/Tamir%20Rice%20Investigation/Katsaris%20Report%20on%20Tamir%20Rice_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Katsaris,\u003c/a> a police consultant and trainer, was critical of the dispatcher for failing to pass on key details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he concluded in his report on the Rice shooting that although the information might have been relevant in some scenarios, “it definitely was not in this situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland's Regina Harris said she has some doubts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it could have been a different situation had the officer known, because their approach may have been totally different,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors complicate the Tamir Rice case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airsoft pellet gun Tamir was holding did not have the orange plastic safety tip that helps identify it as a replica. He was also 195 pounds and may have looked older than 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the officers pulled their car up less than 10 feet from the boy -- leaving little time to assess the situation. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/us/video-shows-cleveland-officer-shot-tamir-rice-2-seconds-after-pulling-up-next-to-him.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a shooting captured on video\u003c/a>, Timothy Loehmann, a rookie officer, shot Tamir just 2 seconds after the patrol car pulled up. Officer Frank Garmback \u003ca href=\"http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2014/11/26/tamir-rice-cleveland-police-radio/19547085/\" target=\"_blank\">called in\u003c/a> the shooting to dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shots fired. Male down- black male- maybe 20. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamir Rice would have turned 13 years old last June. 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She supervised Oakland police dispatch calls during the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/oaklands-oikos-struggles-with-the-anniversary-of-a-massacre\" target=\"_blank\">mass shooting at Oikos University\u003c/a> in 2012, when seven people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not up to us to decide if [a detail is] pertinent or not,” said Oliver. “The officer has to have it, and then they can make their best judgment call based on the information that they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispatchers and officers work as a team, and one of a dispatcher’s top priorities is officer safety. The fact the 911 caller in the Rice case wasn’t positive the gun was fake can present a problem for dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be more afraid that the officer would put their guard down thinking that from the caller,” said Michelle Bauer, an Oakland dispatcher for six years. 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"content": "\u003cp>Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus has been selected as the leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_29125372/richmond-police-chief-accepts-job-tucson\">candidate\u003c/a> to head the Tucson Police Department. While the new job doesn’t come with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tucsonaz.gov/sirepub/cache/2/pxuglon2gvlcr4lsyd2gtkli/730470211172015105038229.PDF\">raise\u003c/a>, it does come with new challenges: leading a large police force in a border city more than \u003ca href=\"http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/04/0477000.html\" target=\"_blank\">five times\u003c/a> the size of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tucson \u003ca href=\"https://www.tucsonaz.gov/gov/meeting-schedules-and-agendas\" target=\"_blank\">City Council\u003c/a> voted unanimously Tuesday evening to accept the city manager’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders say they'll miss a chief they credit with slashing Richmond’s murder rate and improving community-police relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We wish him the best,” Mayor Tom Butt said. “He has changed the culture in our Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Magnus came to Richmond in 2006 from Fargo, North Dakota, the department had a reputation for corruption and violence stretching back to the \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/03/26/inner-unrest/\">1980s\u003c/a>. And many in the city doubted whether this gay white cop would be able to make a dent in Richmond’s sky-high murder rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Magnus has received \u003ca href=\"http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/05/14/richmond-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\">national attention\u003c/a> for his focus on community-police relationships. He put officers back on beats and asked his department to deal with quality-of-life issues that affect neighborhoods, like blight and illegal dumping. Magnus also implemented a number of cutting-edge police technologies, such as \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/09/27/shotspotter-helps-rpd-respond-to-gunfire/\">ShotSpotter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/1023/Crime-Analysis\">COMPSTAT\u003c/a> and body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results have been dramatic. The number of homicides in the city of about 105,000 fell from 49 in 2007 and 2009 to 11 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents fear Magnus’ exit will mean a return to higher crime levels, many agree with Janis Mara, who took to Richmond’s community Facebook page, “TherealRICH,” to wish the chief well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still realize that the mature thing to do is to congratulate our beloved Chief - which I do, with all my heart,” she posted. “But I am so very sad and will miss this exemplary chief who did so very much for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been a smooth ride for Magnus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, seven black officers filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/10/richmond-racial-bias-trial-pits-police-chief-vs-black-officers\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the chief that alleged racism and unfair promotion practices. Ultimately, a jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2012/04/10/updated-jury-exonerates-richmond-police-chief-chris-magnus\">rejected\u003c/a> the allegations. This April, when a lawsuit was filed against Magnus for sexual harassment, city officials and police officers swiftly came to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/09/richmond-officials-stand-behind-chief-magnus-in-latest-flap\">defense.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Magnus again made \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/white-cop-embraced-blacklivesmatter-saving-richmond-97346\">headlines\u003c/a> when he held up a sign reading “#BlackLivesMatter” at a protest in Richmond. The photograph went viral -- and controversy erupted. The department's Police Officers Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Richmond-cops-slam-chief-for-holding-Black-lives-5953636.php\">accused\u003c/a> the chief of political speech while in uniform. But Magnus didn’t back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that black lives matter is something that I would think we should all be able to agree upon,” Magnus told \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmCtKYFhILQ&feature=youtu.be&list=UUeJiVbzZaX4YrelPgn9lF0A\">KPIX\u003c/a> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Richmond has seen an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/crime-spike-in-richmond-a-challenge-for-community-policing\">uptick\u003c/a> both in armed robberies and homicides, but many in the community trust the path that Magnus has set the department on. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Magnus has received \u003ca href=\"http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/05/14/richmond-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\">national attention\u003c/a> for his focus on community-police relationships. He put officers back on beats and asked his department to deal with quality-of-life issues that affect neighborhoods, like blight and illegal dumping. Magnus also implemented a number of cutting-edge police technologies, such as \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/09/27/shotspotter-helps-rpd-respond-to-gunfire/\">ShotSpotter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/1023/Crime-Analysis\">COMPSTAT\u003c/a> and body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results have been dramatic. The number of homicides in the city of about 105,000 fell from 49 in 2007 and 2009 to 11 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents fear Magnus’ exit will mean a return to higher crime levels, many agree with Janis Mara, who took to Richmond’s community Facebook page, “TherealRICH,” to wish the chief well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still realize that the mature thing to do is to congratulate our beloved Chief - which I do, with all my heart,” she posted. “But I am so very sad and will miss this exemplary chief who did so very much for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been a smooth ride for Magnus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, seven black officers filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/10/richmond-racial-bias-trial-pits-police-chief-vs-black-officers\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the chief that alleged racism and unfair promotion practices. Ultimately, a jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2012/04/10/updated-jury-exonerates-richmond-police-chief-chris-magnus\">rejected\u003c/a> the allegations. This April, when a lawsuit was filed against Magnus for sexual harassment, city officials and police officers swiftly came to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/09/richmond-officials-stand-behind-chief-magnus-in-latest-flap\">defense.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Magnus again made \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/white-cop-embraced-blacklivesmatter-saving-richmond-97346\">headlines\u003c/a> when he held up a sign reading “#BlackLivesMatter” at a protest in Richmond. The photograph went viral -- and controversy erupted. The department's Police Officers Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Richmond-cops-slam-chief-for-holding-Black-lives-5953636.php\">accused\u003c/a> the chief of political speech while in uniform. But Magnus didn’t back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that black lives matter is something that I would think we should all be able to agree upon,” Magnus told \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmCtKYFhILQ&feature=youtu.be&list=UUeJiVbzZaX4YrelPgn9lF0A\">KPIX\u003c/a> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Richmond has seen an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/crime-spike-in-richmond-a-challenge-for-community-policing\">uptick\u003c/a> both in armed robberies and homicides, but many in the community trust the path that Magnus has set the department on. Mayor Tom Butt said that while City Manager Bill Lindsay will be in charge of the search for a new chief, he has an idea where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we first ought to look inside the department,” Butt said. “I think there’s some very capable people there who have participated in the culture that Chris Magnus has created for the last nine years. And I think we can find somebody there who will do a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-davis-confirmation-hearing-20151014-story.html\">Baltimore police arrested 16 activists\u003c/a> protesting the permanent appointment of interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The activists were from a group called the Baltimore Uprising coalition, formed in reaction to the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/\">Freddie Gray\u003c/a>, who died of injuries sustained while in police custody in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will not leave until one of you comes and engages with us. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MayorSRB\">@MayorSRB\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CommishKDavis\">@CommishKDavis\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kwame Rose (@kwamerose) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwamerose/status/654476847162499074\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supporters and trolls took to Twitter as the group of young adults expressed disapproval of Davis' approach to policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kin, ignore the trolls. Meditate on freedom. Focus on winning. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash\">#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/a> is a simple truth worth fighting for. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— malkia a. cyril (@culturejedi) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/culturejedi/status/654567187533795328\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Internet has changed the way we talk about race. \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> is a prime example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Black Lives Matter] could have been just like the old civil rights movement, it could have been a movement run by men, it could have been a movement that excluded queer people. ... It’s because of the Internet that it wasn’t,\" says Malkia Cyril, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based media rights organization focused on racial justice, economic equity and human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media -- including the comments section of blogs, social media platforms and various apps -- have fundamentally changed the way we talk about race at all levels, says Cyril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversation about black people and the murder of black people by police could not only be moved from the closets, the shadows of people's homes ... it could move from there out into a larger environment because of social media,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights movement was incredibly organized and well structured. It was bolstered by church members and inherently driven by hierarchy and rules within the church. Today's movement is more open and inclusive. Because it was created in a social media space, its leaders don't have to \"dress themselves up\" for mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Twitter: Where Black Voices are Heard Loud and Clear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can't talk about race and the Internet without talking about Black Twitter, the dynamic cyberspace where black people come together to grieve, laugh, organize, support each other and live tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Almost 8,000 tweets with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory?src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory\u003c/a>. Here's the most retweeted one so far. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\">https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Today in Blk (@todayinblk) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/todayinblk/status/654760612010983424\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cyril says black people across the nation have used the architecture of Twitter -- all 140 characters -- to speak in a creative coded language that captures the humor, beauty and emotional turmoil of the black American experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention Twitter has spawned a myriad of hashtags that have brought attention to issues of underserved communities that people wouldn’t otherwise come across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marching for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/immigrationReform?src=hash\">#immigrationReform\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/againstracism?src=hash\">#againstracism\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightForFifteen?src=hash\">#FightForFifteen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightFor15Chicago?src=hash\">#FightFor15Chicago\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/A0EZmwBrnW\">pic.twitter.com/A0EZmwBrnW\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jorge Mujica (@jmujicam) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmujicam/status/653616643742961664\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNo?src=hash\">#ShellNo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/IdleNoMore?src=hash\">#IdleNoMore\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNotDrill?src=hash\">#ShellNotDrill\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/nativewomenrising?src=hash\">#nativewomenrising\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Y8BJm4WjbJ\">pic.twitter.com/Y8BJm4WjbJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— beansontherun (@beansontherun) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beansontherun/status/650890823932862464\">October 5, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/KeishaJenkins?src=hash\">#KeishaJenkins\u003c/a> was assaulted by 6 men & then shot in the back. She was only 22. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash\">#SayHerName\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\">http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/F8DulzomV6\">pic.twitter.com/F8DulzomV6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— AAPF (@AAPolicyForum) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/651597118709309440\">October 7, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>Net Neutrality and Mobile Devices Provide More Internet Access\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril attributes the current breadth of the conversation on race and cultural identity to an FCC ruling on net neutrality, which prevented Internet service and wireless providers from blocking, inhibiting or establishing fast or slow lanes to content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report by the Pew Research Center finds that \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/01/06/african-americans-and-technology-use/\">African-American Internet use\u003c/a> trails that of whites on traditional platforms, like desktop computers, but is equal on mobile platforms. And 40 percent of African-American Internet users from the ages of 18 to 29 say they use Twitter, compared with 28 percent of young whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Pew report, African-Americans are less likely than whites to have high-speed broadband access at home. However, people of color tend to experience the Internet through social media apps like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mkWMgdKMsIrtu9bYJ2EX9peB2Mt9fFkQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the Internet offers the \"best bypass to mainstream media that has ever been available.” People are able to engage and communicate in a forum for people of color, by people of color -- but these platforms are still not \u003cem>owned\u003c/em> by people of color, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diversity in Tech Is a Centuries-Old Power Dynamic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the dynamic of power that occurs between Internet users and the tech companies is a very old one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the the communication platforms \"that carry our message are owned by the colonizers -- are owned by the elite.” Just take a look at numbers for gender and race \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9179853/tech-diversity-scorecard-apple-google-microsoft-facebook-intel-twitter-amazon\">diversity in tech\u003c/a>, which show white males dominating the sector's workforce and management positions, while African-American and Latino representation hovers in the low single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the low representation of females and black and Latino employees is a result of unfair hiring practices, and the diversification of these companies has implications far beyond freedom of speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ability to survive in this country depends on us being digitally literate,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the Internet allows underrepresented youth to thrive, debate and engage, the primary decision-makers exist in a world that has yet to be penetrated by all people of color.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-davis-confirmation-hearing-20151014-story.html\">Baltimore police arrested 16 activists\u003c/a> protesting the permanent appointment of interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The activists were from a group called the Baltimore Uprising coalition, formed in reaction to the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/\">Freddie Gray\u003c/a>, who died of injuries sustained while in police custody in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will not leave until one of you comes and engages with us. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MayorSRB\">@MayorSRB\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CommishKDavis\">@CommishKDavis\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kwame Rose (@kwamerose) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwamerose/status/654476847162499074\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supporters and trolls took to Twitter as the group of young adults expressed disapproval of Davis' approach to policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kin, ignore the trolls. Meditate on freedom. Focus on winning. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash\">#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/a> is a simple truth worth fighting for. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— malkia a. cyril (@culturejedi) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/culturejedi/status/654567187533795328\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Internet has changed the way we talk about race. \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> is a prime example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Black Lives Matter] could have been just like the old civil rights movement, it could have been a movement run by men, it could have been a movement that excluded queer people. ... It’s because of the Internet that it wasn’t,\" says Malkia Cyril, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based media rights organization focused on racial justice, economic equity and human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media -- including the comments section of blogs, social media platforms and various apps -- have fundamentally changed the way we talk about race at all levels, says Cyril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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