Chanting "death to cops", actually murdering cops, beating up white people cause of their skin colour, vandalizing, rioting, looting, blocking highways and putting not just themselves but the drivers at risk, breaking into peoples homes, dragging people out of cars, actively opposing the police force that is there to try and maintain a semblance of peace, double-standards when it comes to "all lives matter" or "police lives matter". I've even seen a black woman who figuratively verbally assaulted a white woman saying she should get abortion cause the white race needs to stop.
How do you know that all of them are part of the same BLM movement? I am not saying that you're wrong, but dunno, I just feel that there are a large people who made problems before BLM, and now get lumped together with the sensible voices or peoplet that actually have a much different agenda that has nothing to do with blaming 'whitey' or spouting their racist bullshit of kill-all-white people. I've seen those neat youtube videos of some black chick or black guy rioting and spouting some nonsense, however I had no chance to check if they actually have a real affiliation with the BLM movement now or not. Where as the videos where they show a black male with raised arms is getting shoot, well is a video where a clearly unarmed black guy got shoot. But I don't want to simply blame it all on the cops either. I know, there are a lot of emotions playing here too. And when emotions get so high, then I always feel a bit suspicious.
But are you sure those examples that you named are representative for the movement as a whole? Has BLM a kind of spokesperson? Is it a unified and solid movement? Is it acting more like a party? Like where you can actually throw someone out of your organisation? Or is it more a group like the Punk movement or Anonymus, where everyone can claim to be a member, simply because he used a hashtag? For example, I remember how the media jumped on Anonymus, the moment someone hacked something, and simply because someone, somewhere said, we are Anonymus. It turned out though, much latter however, that none of those hackers had actually a real conection with the Anonymus movement.
This is what wikipedia says:
"In 2013, the movement began with the use of the
hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on
social media, after
the acquittal of
George Zimmerman in
the shooting death of African-American teen
Trayvon Martin. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans:
Michael Brown, resulting in
protests and unrest in Ferguson, and
Eric Garner in New York City.
[2][3] The originators of the hashtag and call to action,
Alicia Garza,
Patrisse Cullors, and
Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters during 2014–16.
[4] The overall Black Lives Matter movement, however, is a decentralized network and has no formal hierarchy"
The last statistics that I have seen, as far as cops and the shooting goes, is that black people, as a minority see a disproportionaly high number of deaths due to cops and also more prison time. Now, I have no clue what the reason for this could be. But I feel it is enough to ask questions and if there is something that can be done to improve the situation.
My stance on it, simply put, is best explained by Obama, if that is the reason behind the Movement as a whole.
Obama said, "
I think that the reason that the organizers used the phrase Black Lives Matter was not because they were suggesting that no one else's lives matter ... rather what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that is happening in the African American community that's not happening in other communities."
Are those idiots among the movement representative for it as a whole or not?