The coalition released the following statement:
“Last Wednesday evening, Philando Castile was shot 6 times. The coalition condemns this violence and believes this shut down reinforces our belief that comfort and business as usual must be disrupted until substantive changes occur in our city and throughout the country.
This group demands the dismantling of the police department, which includes disarming, defunding, demilitarizing, and disbanding police. We believe that security for all of us does not lie in use of aggression and force. Real security occurs when all of us have meaningful employment, educational opportunities that help us pursue our own life choices and the adequate healthcare needed to live fruitfully. Research and our experience tells us that the vast amounts spent on militarized police make most communities, excluding the very wealthy, less secure. Funds must be used to create green infrastructure, environments and jobs. Education must not spare us from the reality of American impact on the world and disenfranchised communities in this country. We want public education, led by communities, not corporations.
Education and the media has a responsibility to make the citizenry awake to the real challenges so that there are real possibilities for making our society truly just.
We support community-led alternatives, solutions, and programs to protect our communities. On this day, we support the workers attempting to make a living but we also know that sacrifices must be made if we hope to live decently together.”
Black lives matter in itself is racist,think about it don’t ALL lives matter?People think like this the Country would be better,how can anyone disagree with that.
Surrender to the confines of your stereotype! Welfare checks are now direct deposit, so they had nothing better to do. A couple passes with a MNDOT snow plow would have broke them up! Ha ha, black lives splatter!
The needs of the majority of Americans must always come first. Pandering to one special interest group or another has never worked and in fact has created a much more volatile scenario. It does not matter how noble that special interest may be, if out of a country of 360 million people only 20 million are negatively effected you just live with that. It does not mean you don’t attempt to help that 20 million but you cannot do so to the degree that it negatively affects the majority. Not a popular view I am sure, but realistic in the end.
ALL LIVES MATTER, THESE PEOPLE ARE LOSERS AND DONT HAVE TO GET TO WORK APPARENTLY THEY MUST LIKE RUINING OTHER PEOPLES DAYS, THEY ARE THE DIVIDER IN THIS COUNTRY OBAMAS TERROIST GROUP. GET A REAL HOBBY.
Sign me up. I agree with them 100%. Proud to see such action and resolve.
What is wrong with these people? all lives matter, reguardless of the color of the skin, these protesters are the sucm of our socity
Hypocrite! If all lives matter as you suggest, why do you call some people scum?
Your opinion doesn’t matter
OK not Scum,but dysfunctional families that never learns how society really works they always look to blame someone.Does that work for you then.
Shutting down a public road/highway is BS, they all should be charged with rioting. Disbanding the police, sure that will work. Can you imagine Minneapolis, looking like a scene from, Escape from New York. Get off the streets and get a job before you piss off all the tax payers, and they take matters into their own hands. If this crap keeps up, it’s coming, as people will only take so much.
The main issue should be———-WHY,
Why protest something that is not clearly dealt with yet?
I mean we have a shooting done BEFORE the live video is posted…does that NOT ALONE cause suspicion to the act?
IF the roles were reversed and the car passenger shot the officer because he said HE WAS attacking me and I needed to defend myself……. ?????????????????? come on people, show so common sense, don’t blame a few —–for the all
…I am going to agree with these demonstrators, but have a different way of dealing with their “ways & means”! Put all of the police on paid administrative “leave” for 6 months…and let the people of the city deal with the life they are going to be seeing! I am sure they will be changing their minds about not having the police around, especially when the “scum” within their own ranks…turn on them!
No pay. They want them completely gone.
Just like you need to be gone, name 1 good thing you have done with your life.And living in with your mother doesn’t count.I thought you may be up there protesting you’ve got the time.Just maybe you wouldn’t make it back here. OUR problems would be solved,need one way ride to St.Paul?
They have no right to block a interstate and put peoples lives at risk. These kind of acts along with the riots have turned me off to their claim to a cause. Better get all the facts first. Might be the bad people here were the ones shot and killed.
Better yet use the city snow plows to clear the freeways of those $#!% hippies.
They should arrest and jail everyone of them that block a highway. They are infringing on our right to travel on roads we have paid for as well as endangering people in ambulances and affecting the incomes of people lawfully going to work. They have no right to do this.
You’re not understanding very well. They don’t give a **** about your rights to roads. They are fighting for their lives.
They are just causing problems because they have nothing else to do. They are not fighting for their lives, them killing each other is a much bigger problem, but then they couldn’t blame anyone else for their own stupidity. F*** Off BLM!
A Lot of them are receiving a paycheck from george soros for protesting. How come you didn’t go to des moines yesterday peter for the BLM national day of rage, one was scheduled for des moines but nobody showed up.