Last night, I posted about how city councilman Josh Mandelbaum received a letter from the Des Moines police union after Mandelbaum condemned actions by DMPD against BLM protesters on Twitter. Here is said letter.

"The Black Lives Matter movement is just about... Stopping Black people from being murdered, especially by the police." This is the comment I replied to. I'm not sure where you're at or what part you didn't follow. Moving the goal post to some other topic is cute, but I didn't address anything other than this statement. I further did not argue over "semantics." The above statement is patently false as worded.

Further, you don't know anything about me, but trying to make a personal attack instead of being able to make any rational argument of substance is also adorable. Regardless, I didn't "preach" about anything. BLM is not about Black murder victims comprehensively. The disparity between the discourse and the data makes that clear. It's probably the most common critique from those of the Black community that don't support the BLM group. That means I'm spot on "the point entirely," as opposed to pretending this movement was about something it's not- not addressing and, in fact, actively shouting down any mention of it, as you just showcased.

And how you fathom that correcting misinformation or researching the data is "dense and unhelpful" is beyond me, frankly. The data is free, in fact. I've read a lot of it, thanks. You should too. A movement with a confused sense of purpose and a refusal of using objective metrics is a movement that will achieve little or nothing. But you do you, bud.

You spelled "exclusively" and "police" wrong, by the way. Just so you know. Cheers, mate.

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