Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother
Eradicating BLM Plaza Feels Like Unhealthy Omen
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A Black mom who misplaced her son earlier than the rise of the Black Lives Matter motion says the removing of BLM Plaza in our nation’s capital is an indication the nation is in a nasty place.
Ahmaud Arbery‘s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, tells TMZ … the removing of the BLM mural in Washington, D.C. “seems like a nasty omen” and he or she says it serves as “a reminder of how fragile progress may be.”
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Wanda says BLM was by no means about murals, monuments, or symbolic gestures … it is all the time been about accountability, justice and significant change — however she does not just like the change being made right here.
Arbery was murdered in February 2020 whereas out for a run in Georgia … and video of his homicide by the hands of three white males sparked widespread outrage.
BLM actually took off after George Floyd was murdered by a white cop months later, sparking summer time protests nationwide … however Arbery’s case stays a giant a part of the motion … as does Breonna Taylor‘s loss of life. The Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown killings additionally prompted the early beginnings of the BLM trigger.
Lee Merritt, an lawyer who has labored with the households of Arbery, Floyd and Taylor, tells TMZ … “Justice is not measured in murals — it is measured in legal guidelines, accountability, and defending Black lives.”
On that entrance, Merritt says … “Accountability got here when the lads who murdered Ahmaud have been sentenced to life. Reform got here with the passage of the Ahmaud Arbery Hate Crimes Act. And coverage change got here when Georgia repealed the vigilante protection they used to justify their actions.”
