BLM

It takes a lot of research to find information about Black Lives Matter (BLM) that is not biased one way or the other. After considerable effort I found a young woman, Marissa Lucero, who is a business owner but active in the BLM movement. Here is her rather thought provoking comment: For most white people, their first instinct is to believe that the police are here to protect them and their property but for many Black people, their first instinct is that the police are there to protect someone else from them-they are there to make sure that you do not break the law not to protect you from lawbreakers. If that is true then why. Black neighborhoods in the cities are high crime areas. This may well be the result of past discriminatory treatment by police but it remains a fact. When police go into these areas they are not trusted and thus extra cautious. The tendency is to react based on a preconceived notion of guilt and this caution often saves the lives of police but it also results in unfair action. It is not automatically racist since many officers are Black and react in the same manner. Honest citizens living in these neighborhoods need and want police protection but others want the police to stay out.