The officers pinned Garner to the ground, causing him to lose consciousness. Two police officers had confronted Garner for allegedly selling cigarettes illegally. A video, recorded by a bystander, showed the police officer restraining Garner unlawfully. Garner died after a white New York City police officer placed him in a chokehold. In 2014 the Black Lives Matter movement grew after police killed two Black men: Micheal Brown, 18, and Eric Garner, a 44-year-old father of six. It’s also become more intergenerational.” “Now difficult conversations, honest conversations, and even some discourse, have become part of the daily discussion here in Oklahoma, and I think that goes nationwide in many different factions. Sheri Amour Dickerson, Executive Director and Core Organizer of BLM Oklahoma City told NBC News. “The conversation around race didn’t exist in a vast capacity until we saw the BLM movement, this surge,” T. The rise of BLM has enabled more frequent and more meaningful discussions about race. “BLMCLe is committed to proactive steps to prevent police brutality through systemic police reform, investigation, legislation, training, vetting, transparency and education,” Goldsby wrote in an email. According to BLMCle President and CoFounder LaTonya Goldsby, the chapter was founded in December 2015, a year after a Cleveland police officer fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Thirty BLM chapters have developed across the United States since the movement’s start, including one in Cleveland.
In seven years, Black Lives Matter, founded to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities,” has become a multichapter organization that has changed the way in which the nation talks about race. What began as a hashtag has come to define a new generation of activism. From the phrase, “Our lives matter,” Garza and her friends Cullors and Tometi created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. She posted a message of comforting words to the Black community on Facebook on Jthat contained the phrase “Our lives matter.” Garza said she felt “a deep sense of grief” after Zimmerman was acquitted. They formed the organization in response to the acquittal of Zimmerman.Īccording to, Garza was saddened to observe that many people appeared to blame the victim, Trayvon Martin, rather than Zimmerman and his racist actions, for Martin’s death. When Zimmerman was acquitted in July 2013, further nationwide protests ensued.īlack Lives Matter, which defines itself as a “Black-centered political will and movement building project,” was co-founded in 2013 by three Black women: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. At Zimmerman’s trial, which took place more than a year later, he claimed he had acted in self-defense. Zimmerman faced no consequences for weeks after the shooting but was finally charged with second-degree murder and arrested in April 2012, after protestors demanding his prosecution flooded streets across the United States. Zimmerman confronted him, then shot and killed him as the two struggled. Zimmerman saw Martin walking in his neighborhood and called the police because he thought Martin looked “suspicious.” Although police told Zimmerman not to do anything, he followed Martin, who, wearing a hoodie and carrying Skittles, was walking home. His killer? George Zimmerman, a white man serving as a neighborhood watch volunteer. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old Black boy murdered on the street in a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood Feb.
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