Parent Complaints Forces Florida School to Pause Distributing Yearbook Over Black Lives Matter Coverage Versus Blue Lives Matter
Students in a Florida high school had to halt distribution of a student-run yearbook following a wave of complaints about coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, Local 10 News reported.
Students at West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida, started to receive their yearbook last week, but by Friday, June 4, the administration told them to stop all sales. This after an alleged outcry over the book’s two-page spread featuring students participating in the BLM movement and names of those who’ve died at the hands of police was considered not to be objective because it didn’t include a conversation about Blue Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter was created in December 2014 as a countermovement in the United States advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statute.