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I think it may have something to with the perception. BLM isn't black people vs white people or black people vs police by any means. It's just bringing awareness to racially motivated injustice in law enforcement and police brutality. Deadly force should not have been used on all of these unarmed people of color. Failing to signal a lane change, selling cds or cigarettes, or getting out your ID shouldn't result in loss of life.

As with every positive movement, there are people that come along with the wrong idea and with negative intentions that distract people from all the good the movement has the potential to do. Some would argue that because of this marring of the BLM objective by radical "followers" that the entire organization should be done away with. I'd like to assert that an incident of violence (that BLM does not advocate for btw) does not change the original purpose to which BLM was created. Just as a comparison, a spoon was created to be used as an eating utensil, but just because someone may use it to garden does not change it's original purpose. All that being said I think it's important to see BLM for what it is, not what it's been distorted and manipulated to be.