All Lives Matter (!) or (?)

[Bill Cummings]

People say that not jumping on the BLM band wagon detracts from an important narrative.
Chanting black lives matter doesn’t answer what are we going to do about police killing
unarmed, hand cuffed, knee on the neck, and two knees on the back, helpless people.
I can’t worry about offending BLM chanters because they are drawing attention away
from my narrative that might be the only way to force change.
Stop trying to infringe on my free speech of
strip all weapons carrying government employees of qualified immunity.
What good is a no knee on the neck law if anyone is immune to that law.
The damn immunity applies to most of all the other laws that everyone
else has to abide.
Make officer pay for their own malpractice insurance. If they screw up
their premiums go up with each lawsuit that they are not immune.
Their malpractice will price them out of the profession before DA’s
judges, review boards can cover for them.
Stop trying to silence me and others that don’t want to sit idly by
while others yell, “Stop systemic racism,” “Curb your unconscious bias.”
“Black Lives Matter.”
SUGGEST A FIX FOR FLOYD TYPE ISSUES!

[Bob Kuczewski]

Kim Klacik for Congress in Baltimore:

[SamKellner]

[Bill Cummings]

Lung Doctor Analyzes George Floyd Autopsy Report (MEDICAL EXPLANATION)
https://youtu.be/0oqEp63duIc

[Bill Cummings]

CBS and NBC news networks just screwed the pooch tonight. They both published
reports of protesters carrying signs that said, Asian Lives Matter. As the woke
community will tell anyone saying, “All Lives Matter,” or “All Good Lives
Matter,” or “Police Lives Matter,” there will be no way that saying “Asian Lives
Matter,” also isn’t detracting from the message of Black Lives Matter. People at CBS
and NBC could easily lose their jobs for even thinking free speech exists in this country.

[Bob Kuczewski]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57277777

Patrisse Cullors: Black Lives Matter co-founder resigns

Black Lives Matter's co-founder says she is resigning from its foundation, but not because of what she called right-wing attempts to discredit her.

Patrisse Cullors said Friday would be her last day at the foundation, which she has led for nearly six years.

The 37-year-old activist's finances came under scrutiny last month after it was reported she owned four homes.

Black Lives Matter started as a hashtag in 2013 and has since become a global movement.

Ms Cullors said she would step down from the Black Lives Matter Global Network to focus on her forthcoming second book, An Abolitionist's Handbook, and a TV development deal with Warner Bros highlighting black stories.

    ▪BLM founders: We fought to change history and won

In a statement, she said: "With smart, experienced and committed people supporting the organization during this transition, I know that BLMGNF is in good hands.

"The foundation's agenda remains the same - eradicate white supremacy and build life-affirming institutions."

Ms Cullors told the AP news agency her resignation had been planned for more than a year and was not related to claims that she had misused donations to acquire her property portfolio. There is no evidence to suggest that she had done so.

"Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don't operate off of what the right thinks about me," she said.

The BLM Foundation told AP in February that it had raised $90m (£63m) amid last year's racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The foundation said it ended 2020 with a balance of more than $60m, after operating expenses, grants to black-led organisations and other expenses.

Last month the New York Post reported that Ms Cullors - a self-described Marxist - had bought a $1.4m luxury home in Topanga Canyon, near Malibu, and owned three other homes, including a custom ranch in Georgia.

Facebook banned users from sharing the story, citing privacy concerns, and a black journalist said he was locked out of his Twitter account after he posted the article.

Conservative critics - but also some black activists - called for an investigation into whether Ms Cullors had used the organisation's funds to enrich herself.

In April the foundation said that Ms Cullors had received $120,000 between 2013 and 2019 for her work.

The Black Lives Matter Foundation said in a statement: "As a registered 501c3 non-profit organization, [the foundation] cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer.

"Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false."

Ms Cullors appeared to hold back tears as she told the Black News Channel last month that suggestions of financial impropriety against her were "categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous".

The grieving parents of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor - two African Americans whose deaths at the hands of white police officers were often cited by Black Lives Matter - last month reportedly complained the organisation had done nothing to help them.

[Bob Kuczewski]

https://youtu.be/Uy_PnIQ3bUQ

[Bob Kuczewski]

From the New York Post:

Black Lives Matter is imploding in scandal — a lesson about causes deemed beyond question

By Post Editorial Board
February 6, 2022 7:55pm 
Updated

The organization has no official leader overseeing its $60 million war chest after its co-founder resigned in May
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“It appears that the house of cards may be falling,” says Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that snarfs up most cash donated to the BLM movement. Indeed, “this happens eventually with nearly every scam, scheme or illegal enterprise.”

It’s not just Indiana: The states of Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia have all revoked BLMNGF’s charitable registration, while California and Washington are threatening to hold the nonprofit’s officers personally liable for its lack of financial transparency.

The outfit has failed to file taxes for 2020, the year it raised tens of millions after George Floyd’s death at police hands and the rioting and protests that followed. It has no official leader overseeing its $60 million war chest after its co-founder resigned in May.

And that co-founder, Patrisse Cullors-Khan, is tied to several other fundraising organizations whose finances raise “potential red flags,” New York magazine reports. Meanwhile, she’s been on a personal real estate buying spree, while BLM funds transferred to a Canadian nonprofit run by her spouse have gone for other dubious purchases.

Vast giving by deep-pocketed donors linked to Facebook, Twitter and Netflix — as well as by corporations rushing to show the “right” political consciousness — may have funded rank peculation by those entrusted with the funds.

In the end, Black Lives Matter is turning into an oft-told tale: Big piles of cash wrapped in moral fervor invite corruption. And the more the cause is deemed beyond questioning, the faster the scammers move in.

From Yahoo News:

Black Lives Matter Suspends Online Fundraising after State AGs Threaten Legal Action
Brittany Bernstein
February 3, 2022 · 3 min read

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Black Lives Matter suspended online fundraising on Wednesday after attorneys general in California and Washington state asked the group to submit delinquent financial disclosures for 2020, according to a report.

A Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) spokesperson told the Washington Examiner, which first reported the move, that the group takes “these matters seriously” and has “taken immediate action.”

“We have immediately engaged compliance counsel to address any issues related to state fundraising compliance,” the spokesperson said. “In the interim, we have shut down online fundraising as we work quickly to ensure we are meeting all compliance requirements.”

The group shut down its fundraising one day after the Washington Examiner published a letter from California Attorney General Rob Bonta telling BLMGNF that it was prohibited from soliciting or disbursing funds because of its failure to submit an annual report for the 2020 tax year. In the letter, which was dated January 31, Bonta threatened to hold individual leaders personally liable for late fees.

Washington demanded BLM “immediately cease” all fundraising activities there on January 5.

The group said at the close of 2020 that after raising $90 million, spending $8.4 million in operating expenses and distributing $21.7 million in grants to 33 other organizations, it closed the year with $60 million. The group was not officially registered as a charity with the IRS until late 2020, according to the report. It has previously funneled donations through other liberal charities.

Meanwhile, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has sounded alarms over BLM’s refusal to answer basic questions about its finances and operations.

“It appears that the house of cards may be falling, and this happens eventually with nearly every scam, scheme, or illegal enterprise,” the Republican attorney general told the Washington Examiner. “I see patterns that scams kind of universally take: failure to provide board members, failure to provide even executive directors, failure to make your filings available. It all leads to suspicion.”

Rokita did not confirm or deny that his office is investigating BLM but said the paper’s reporting on the group has “certainly” caused his office to be concerned.

The group’s charity registration is also out of compliance in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia, according to the report.

BLM has not publicly named anyone to oversee its estimated $60 million bankroll since co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned in May, the Washington Examiner reported. No one Cullors named to replace her ever came to an agreement with the internal leadership council, making it unclear who is in charge.

Cullors resigned from her post as executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, a role she has held for more than five years, amid questions about her finances, according to Fox News. She faced backlash after the revelation that she bought four homes for more than $3 million in recent years.

However, she told the Associated Press at the time that she was leaving her post to focus on other projects, including the release of her second book and a television deal with Warner Bros.

She said that her departure was planned for more than a year and was unrelated to any controversies over her personal finances.

“Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don’t operate off of what the right thinks of me,” Cullors said.

The organization has received criticism for its extremist views, including Cullors’s 2015 admission that she and her fellow co-founders are “trained Marxists.”

“I actually do think we have an ideological frame. We are trained Marxists,” Cullors said.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Excellent video by Candace Owens titled "A Short History of Slavery" on Prager U:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_wmixXBdE

[SamKellner]