It was formed two years ago in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman who was tried for the murder of black teenager Trayvon Martin-- an outcome resulting from the fact, according to Black Lives Matter, that America’s “corrupt democracy” was built on “indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.”
BLM also believes that blacks in the U.S. are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes” in our “white supremacist system.”
One of a member of the criminal Black Liberation Army who killed a New Jersey State trooper in a holdup in 1973 and then fled to Cuba where she has lived ed in “exile” ever since. (At its “protests” some Black Lives Matter members wear t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Assata Taught Us.”)
Recently Black Lives Matters sponsored a talk by former New Black Panther chairman Malik Shabazz, who has advocated race war and exhorted blacks to create “funerals in the police community.” (The day after Houston sheriff’s deputy Darren Goforth was murdered by a black assailant in Houston, BLM demonstrators marched outside the Minnesota state fair chanting “pigs in a blanket [referring to body bags], fry ‘em like bacon.”)
