Did they have nothing to do with the protests in Minneapolis where they chanted about "pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon?". The day after an officer was murdered.
Did the BLM Twitter account not post picture of members and activists wearing shirts saying "Assata taught me"?
Have I missed them publicly denouncing the acts of black people who are killing officers? Or does their outrage only go one way?
I haven't deflected anything, and as I have the whole time, I've said both sides need to come together. However, as said above, to constantly criticize police for not throwing aside their fellow officers who may have done wrong, the other side should be just as accountable for their own people and actions.
Are they at every single protest? No of course not that's impossible, nor can they control the actions of others.
However they don't and never have advocated violence towards police officers or violent protests. BLM as a movement has never advocated violence, and nor have they ever been silent on the issues facing black communities.
And i'm not sure if you've done research on them or not, it doesn't sound as though you have outside of the lazy rhetoric that gets branded about. But what those 3 specific people are aiming for is very different to whats said about them.
http://www.wetheprotesters.org/exe-sum-and-overview - provides a very brief overview of Deray & Netta's (and oters) aims, which talk about the collective community (blacks, police & people of all colours) coming together and eradicating the problem. But also many structured programs & initiatives to give the voiceless their chance to be heard in a non-violent and non threatening way.
When there were violent protests in Ferguson I remember Deray saying something along the lines of vandalism from protest comes about as an expression of anger due to current climate & the voiceless continuing to not be heard.
But when football & hockey fans vandalise their communities in celebration of their team winning a cup of whatever it's only seen as "rowdy, drunken behaviour" (See: SF Giants winning the world series in 2015, Vancouver Canucks lose in the Stanley Cup Final for example) when certain sections of black people riot they're animals who don't care about their neighbourhood (See Ferguson for example) then the police come out in tanks and SWAT gear & the conservative narrative is that only black people do this to their communities. And they only care about black lives & black communities when its a white cop that does something negative towards them.
It's such a lazy & baseless argument, because most people who say it have no idea bout the countless programs that black people do in black communities for the benefit of the community (it's not just targeted towards black people because in black communities you usually find people of all colours)
You mentioned Assata Shakur of the BPP - well the Black Panthers brought free education, free breakfast, free childcare, free travel to those who needed it the most in black communities - which is exactly what you're talking about. They supported black businesses, black banks, & black schools. Does that ever get mentioned in the same breath when someone talks about The Black Panthers? Nope. But that's just one argument i'm not going to talk about the Black Panthers or Assata Shakur in here because again it's the first argument people go to, trying to pin the Black Panthers as some sort of extremist black supremacist organisation that hated white people & tried to kill them purposely for no reason other than being white.
The fact is when black people do positive things within the black community it doesn't get mentioned. Al Sharpton for example who gets crucified in Conservative media - has made many trip to Chicago to try and address the violence, but if you were to believe the media rhetoric - Sharpton & other black leaders only care when it its a white cop. Not that they do it for the purpose of fame & recognition, but when it comes to conversations about police brutality and similar topic the first argument is "Well why don't you look after your community first" even though we are. Are we at the point of 0% crime in black communities? No that's never going to happen and it shouldn't have to happen in order for black people to feel aggrieved about police brutality, or for our voices to be heard objectively.
Last time I checked the stats (around a year ago now probably) black on black crime has actually fallen over the past decades faster than white on white crime, and the percentage at which black people kill each other and white people kill each other is roughly the same. But that doesn't get mentioned - only that black on black crime is out of control and black people are doing nothing about it.
Well quite frankly police brutality has been out of control for decades now too.
