Top 7 Times Black Lives Matter Stood Up for Innocent Whites and Police

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2014, file photo, Richmond Chief of Police Chris Magnus stands with demonstrators to protest the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths during a peaceful demonstration in Richmond, Calif. In cities and states nationwide, police departments are already altering policies and procedures to temper concerns about police conduct in the aftermath of recent cases of black males dying at the hands of white officers. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Kristopher Skinner, File)
FILE – In this Dec. 9, 2014, file photo, Richmond Chief of Police Chris Magnus stands with demonstrators to protest the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths during a peaceful demonstration in Richmond, Calif. In cities and states nationwide, police departments are already altering policies and procedures to temper concerns about police conduct in the aftermath of recent cases of black males dying at the hands of white officers. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Kristopher Skinner, File)

 

3. Los Angeles, August 2016

When an unarmed white man named William Bowers was brutally shot and killed by L.A. police, black activists rallied in his name and against police brutality of all people, because it was “the right thing to do.”

“We can’t only be advocates when black people are killed by police unjustly,” one protester was quoted as saying.

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