Black Lives Matter Grassroots Calls for an End to Qualified Immunity After the Successful Verdict of the Andrew Joseph III Case

Black Lives Matter was birthed in 2013 in response to George Zimmerman's acquittal for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The boots-on-the-ground have always been everyday people committed to ending state-sanctioned violence against Black people. We took to the streets, demanded policy change, shifted narratives, and built a mass movement - then and now - to build a world where all of our people can live and walk freely.

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Statement on Dr. Cornel West Joins the Board of Black Lives Matter Grassroots

In many ways this is a revisitation of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, in which ruling Justice Roger Taney claimed, “African Americans had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”.

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Statement on Jordan Neely

In many ways this is a revisitation of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, in which ruling Justice Roger Taney claimed, “African Americans had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”.

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