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Anonymous ID: 0d259d June 26, 2020, 9:19 a.m. No.9754851   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4980

A statement from the Chancellor’s Office at the University of California Berkeley on the recent murder of a student has drawn criticism after trivializing the shooting in light of the “stress, grief and anxiety” of those grieving over “George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans.”

Seth Smith, an economics and history major who was described as brilliant and kind by friends and family, was shot to death near a bus stop while taking a late-night walk.

“Somebody literally walked up to him and put a gun to the back of his head and shot him and we don’t know why,” said Smith’s mother, Michelle.

Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a statement to the student community Monday in which she said, “It is important to know that individuals may express their grief differently and we need to respect the different ways people react and support each other in the days and weeks ahead.”

“Many of you may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief. Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans,” Christ’s statement said.

The insensitivity of the statement was met with backlash on social media.

 

https://nationalfile.com/berkeley-chancellor-trivializes-students-murder-references-stress-grief-and-anxiety-over-george-floyd/

Anonymous ID: 0d259d June 26, 2020, 9:31 a.m. No.9755000   🗄️.is đź”—kun

OAN Newsroom

UPDATED 7:26 PM PT — Friday, June 26, 2020

Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi is reportedly connected to the Maduro regime. A picture of Tometi hugging the Venezuelan dictator surfaced on Thursday.

The photo in question was taken in Harlem at the 2015 People of African Descent Leadership Summit. At the time, Maduro was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

Tometi also shared some thoughts at the summit, where she thanked Maduro and his government for having her. During her speech, she condemned the “western economic policies, land grabs and neocolonial financial instruments like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”

That same year, Tometi was in the socialist South American country when she tweeted:

Police brutality, one of the atrocities the Black Lives Matter movement stands against, has plagued Venezuela in the years since Maduro took power back in 2013. Since then, more than 4.5 million people have fled Venezuela.

In 2018 alone, Breitbart reported nearly 1,500 minors were killed at the hands of the police. Venezuelan police under Maduro are reported to have imprisoned and murdered a countless number of protesters and political opponents.

Tometi has not commented on the brutality in Venezuela, but remains a vocal critic of so-called police brutality in America.

“But people from all walks of life are looking around and saying, this is not the type of country I want to live in. I am tired. I don’t want to be part of a society that allows unarmed black people to be killed every single day by police.”

— Opal Tometi, co-founder – Black Lives Matter

This follows a recently circulated video showing another Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, stating that the movement holds a Marxist ideology.

“We actually do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” said Cullors. “We are trained Marxists.”

 

https://www.oann.com/black-lives-matter-co-founder-connected-to-maduro/