In this episode, we discuss the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement overall has good goals of eradicating white supremacy and violence the black community from the state. However, there was violence that occured during protests. Time magazine wrote that 93% of protests that occurred were peaceful. LA saw a lot of violence whereas Salt Lake only had two incidents. BLM leadership in Salt Lake did not support the violence by asking protesters to not act violently. Despite that, the leadership of movements cannot control all its supporters unfortunately.

There is a long history of racism that contributes to the Defund Police and Black Lives Matter movements. In the next episodes, we will discuss the impacts of the defund movement.

Finally, we all have bias, whether we are aware of it or not. As a society, we can slow down and learn to question our beliefs.

Sources: 

https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/

https://blacklivesmatter.com/