“We are highlighting a longtime problem of racial profiling,” said forward Maya Moore, the 2014 WNBA MVP.
Four team captains, Rebekkah Brunson, Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen, wore BLM T-shirts in honor of the all innocent lives lost over the past few days.
The reaction of police officers says it all. Girls did it for the families of the victims, they did it for the movement, for the empowerment, but what the officers did is just a disrespect and a warning to stay woke.
They showed us they will not tolerate black people’s empowerment.
PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO of heavily armed police officers wearing body armor and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world’s media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
Images of what looked like a clear mismatch between the threat of violence from protesters and the aggressive use of force by police officers confronting them.
