At least 18 people have died during the Black Lives Matters’ protests during the summer of 2020. The mainstream media refuses to report this information because it does not fit the narrative they are pushing. Among those murdered include:

• In Oakland, California, amid unrest, a Federal Protective Service officer, David Patrick Underwood, was fatally shot outside a federal courthouse in a drive-by attack that also wounded another guard.

• In St. Louis, Missouri, 29-year-old protester Barry Perkins died after being run over by a FedEx truck.

• In Indianapolis, 38-year-old Chris Beaty, a local business owner, who was shot shortly before midnight May 31.

• In Davenport Iowa, 22-year-old Italia Marie Kelly was shot randomly as she was leaving a demonstration.

• In Atlanta, an 8 year old girl, Secoriea Turner, was killed during an anti-police rally in the aftermath of the Rayshard Brooks policing incident (June, 2020). The young girl was sitting in a car with her parents when she was shot by one of the BLM protesters.

• At a rally in Cicero, IL on June 1, bystanders 28-year-old Jose Gutierrez and 27-year-old Victor Cazares, Jr. were killed. The suspects remain at-large.

• In St. Louis, 77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn was shot and killed by looters at a pawn shop that he was trying to protect from looters and rioters.

Additionally, a 29-year-old police officer was shot in the head as he tried to disperse a large crowd of rioters in Las Vegas. The officer, Shay Mikalonis, was on life support and eventually survived. He is now paralyzed. All of these incidents happened between May 28 and June 2, 2020.

ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER

The 2020 platform for the Movement for Black Lives, which BLM is a member-supporter of, has nasty rhetoric against Jews and Israel. For example:

1. "The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people" (source: BLM platform).

2. "Israel is an apartheid state with over 50 laws on the books that sanction discrimination against the Palestinian people" (source: BLM platform).

3. "Palestinian homes and land are routinely bulldozed to make way for illegal Israeli settlements" (source: BLM platform).

4. "Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain Palestinians as young as 4 years old without due process" (source: BLM platform).

5. "Every day, Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the U.S.-­funded apartheid wall" (source: BLM platform).

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS' RESPONSES

In response:

• The American Jewish Committee (AJC) wrote: "The Movement for Black Lives libels Israel, while diluting the moral seriousness of those terms -- genocide and apartheid." They continued, "MBL identifies itself with a cause that, beyond undermining the effort to advance peace between Israelis and Palestinians, is fundamentally grounded in denial of the very legitimacy of the Jewish state."

• The ADL wrote, "We categorically reject the document’s criticism of the United States and Israel,” he wrote. “It’s repellent and completely inaccurate to label Israel’s policy as ‘genocide’.”

• And the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has been working to keep BLM curricula out of public schools, arguing that it is a political movement and does not belong in schools across the country.

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