democratic candidate who got into hot water responding to protesters saying black lives matter discussing police violence dwens african-americans. against african-americans. every life matters and that is why this issue is so important. black lives matter. white lives matter. all lives matter. all lives matter. many found those comments shocking and insensitive, especially those not members of the all lives community. later o malley apologized for his statement. watch. i believe what i said was black lives matter before those other two phrases. when i said the other two phrases i meant no disrespect. that was a mistake on my part and i meant no disrespect. i didn t mean to be insensitive in anyway. he didn t mean to be insensitive. damion he said black lives matter first. it was in the first order and then he went on and said i