Tishaura Jones wants to reimagine policing in St. Louis. With rising crime and a push to defund, can she do it? Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY
ST. LOUIS – Mayor Tishaura Jones peels off her bedazzled facemask while standing outside downtown s St. Patrick Center, preparing to address the crowd about the facility s new women s center.
On one side of a 6-foot black steel fence closest to the Catholic-based homeless shelter s entrance are clergy, dignitaries and other stakeholders.
The other side is home to a large gravel lot where about a dozen homeless people – mostly men – sleep, wander and watch the mayor.
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Black Lives Matter ignores victims of systemic racism and enriches a select few, so say the families of those killed by the police and many of the group s own activists.
Founded in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for his role in Trayvon Martin s death, the group has held protests around the country against perceived systemic racism against minorities. Black Lives Matter has sparked global conversations on race and policing and is credited with a number of criminal justice reform efforts.
But on Thursday, the mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police during a raid in March 2020, charged that the movement in her city of Louisville, Kentucky, is nothing more than a scam.
Marching from Februaryâs Black History Month, Michael Brown Sr. is requesting âreparationsâ for his sonâs death. But you wonât believe who heâs demanding $20 million from â Black Lives Matter.
Yes, the infamous organization that took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 after Mike Brown Jr. was shot and killed by police. Black Lives Matter is being confronted by the black family whose sonâs death it used to raise money. How dare these people seek restitution, right? Wrong. If reparations are to be paid, they should be given while the getting is good.
The call for $20 million comes after the organization revealed it raised $90 million in 2020. Did you read those numbers correctly? During an election year and through a pandemic, an organization based on race, transgenderism, lesbianism, defunding the police, white guilt, and the destruction of the nuclear family raised $90 million.