Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
LOL, I thought your title was referring to Bureau of Land Management... sigh....

I think the thrust of the Black Lives Matter complaint is that black people aren't safe from the police, the institution that's supposed to protect all of us from criminals. We all expect gang members fighting over turf to shoot each other, and for local innocents to get caught in the cross-fire, but nobody should expect to be shot by police in a traffic stop. Arguably its easier to get police forces to stop shooting black people who clearly are not a threat than it is to get gangsters to stop shooting each other. Once the police can be trusted more, maybe there can be more cooperation from the black community to deal with the drug violence more effectively.
The slogan is Black Lives Matter. Its clearly a protest about police but if you look at the broader picture the protests actually have probably led to more black people being dead than if they had never protested at all.