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Anonymous ID: ecb8a2 June 25, 2020, 8:44 a.m. No.9742749   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2802 >>2823 >>2848 >>2861 >>2907 >>2985 >>3045

BLM leader: If change doesn’t happen, then ‘we will burn down this system’

 

The president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter said that if the movement fails to achieve meaningful change during nationwide protests over George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers, it will “burn down this system.”

 

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,” Hawk Newsome said during an interview Wednesday evening on “The Story” with Martha MacCallum.

 

“Let’s be very real,” he told the Fox News host. “Let’s observe the history of the 1960s, when black people were rioting. We had the highest growth in wealth, in property ownership. Think about the last few weeks since we started protesting. There have been eight cops fired across the country.”

 

He said in past incidents involving fatal encounters with citizens, police officers were always allowed due process, but when people begin to destroy property, things change.

 

“What is this country rewarding? What behavior is it listening to? Obviously not marching. But when people get aggressive and they escalate their protests, cops get fired, Republican politicians talking about police reform,” he said.

 

“I don’t condone nor do I condemn rioting,” Newsome continued. “But I’m just telling you what I observed.”

 

MacCallum asked Newsome what Black Lives Matter hoped to achieve through violence.

 

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https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-leader-if-change-doesnt-happen-we-will-burn-down-this-system/