• Throwaway@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    A left leaning news site says blm killing 36 people is false (which was not my claim), and the source they have is “The FBI haven’t produced figures”?

    You do realize that doesn’t help you, right?

    For the relevant bit:

    As for the numbers claimed in the post, the U.S. Justice Department told us it does not have figures on officer injuries or property damage resulting from civil disturbances, and the FBI said it had no comment.

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      1 year ago

      You do realize that doesn’t help you, right?

      I linked it for this section in particular:

      Difficult to flatly blame BLM

      There is a Black Lives Matter national organization, which says it has more than a dozen U.S. chapters, along with countless numbers of individuals who support the organization.

      As the New York Times reported July 3, four recent polls “suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts.”

      There are also people who have participated in demonstrations, which have occurred in hundreds of cities, who may have no allegiance to Black Lives Matter, or may even oppose it, and have rioted or committed other acts of violence — making it even more difficult to determine how a violent incident occurred.

      What’s more, news coverage of the protests have also included numerous reports that identify law enforcement officers as causing injury to civilians.

      Which explains it better than I could.