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WOOSTER The city's Black Lives Matter daily demonstration movement reached its 600th consecutive day on Friday. It is among the longest-runningdaily rallies in the nation.

SinceGeorge Floyd's death in May of 2020, the movement, led by the Wayne County Racial Justice Coalition and members of the Wooster-Orrville NAACP, has assembled daily at the city square to protest police brutality, racism and encourage law enforcement policy reform.

Activism: Nearly 600 days of protests and counting; Wooster BLM seeks police policy changes in 2022

To keep the movement going, three to four sign holders stand at Liberty and Market streets each day, no matter the weather.

The demonstration shows no end in sight as it enters2022. At the top of the priority list for the group remains community outreach and police policy reform.

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The Black Lives Matter narrative is powerful and emotive: black Americans, it says, are being murdered in large numbers by a racist police force. This narrative was repeated and amplified by the media in the days and months following the horrific murder of George Floyd. But what if it isnt actually true? According to data scientist Zac Kriegman, the statistical evidence is just not there. Last May, Kriegman posted an essay criticising BLMs claims and his employer, Thomson Reuters, for treating them as established facts. This set in motion a chain of events that led to his firing. spiked caught up with Kriegman to find out what happened.

spiked: What did you say that got you into trouble?

Zac Kriegman: I wrote an essay that summarised academic research showing the damage that the BLM movement had been doing. In vulnerable communities there had been thousands of murders directly as a result of BLM falsehoods. I posted the essay on an internal company forum. And that precipitated a barrage of extremely hateful, belittling and highly racialised attacks on me.

The companys response was to censor everything and to shut down any internal criticism of BLM. Thats a pretty remarkable thing for a media company to do. It raises the question of how it can accurately report on what is going on in the world, if its own employees literally cannot discuss facts, evidence and statistics relating to the issues they are reporting on.

I sent an email to my colleagues and to the senior leadership complaining about this racialised bullying, saying it had completely shut down any discussion about this matter of critical public importance. And I said our reporting was implicated in the problem. They fired me for sending that email.

spiked: What were the key claims you made in your essay?

Kriegman: The key claim BLM makes is that police more readily shoot black people than white people. It turns out that there is actually no evidence this is true at all.

BLMs core claim is false. But it has nevertheless driven huge reductions in policing around the country, especially in the communities that are most vulnerable to violence. Those are the communities where police face the most criticism and the most personal risk of their lives being ruined if they end up having to shoot someone. So they have pulled back their policing from those areas. Also, defunding the police has resulted in skyrocketing violent crime and thousands of additional murders of primarily black people in these vulnerable communities.

spiked: You have said that the consequences of BLM are racist. What did you mean?

Kriegman: Its hard to imagine our society perpetuating a falsehood that was resulting in thousands of wealthy white people in well-to-do neighbourhoods being murdered.

In my hometown, if there were dozens of kids being murdered, residents would not be calling for less policing. They would want a police officer on every single block. But when there are dozens of kids being murdered two neighbourhoods away, their response is to support BLM, which is calling for fewer police. I dont know that this is overt racism. It is just that most of the people who get to decide whether to perpetuate these falsehoods are not at risk from the increased crime.

spiked: What concerned you about the way that Reuters was reporting on BLM?

Kriegman: The biggest problem was that it was perpetuating this core falsehood. Reuters would fact-check other people who pointed out that it was false, and would imply that those people were wrong, or that their take was somehow misleading.

Police kill more white people every year than black people. When people said that, Reuters would say that actually you have to benchmark the number of people killed against the percentage of the population they make up which is wrong. What you should do is benchmark the number of people killed against the number of risky encounters they have with police. That would tell you whether or not police are more likely to use lethal force against them.

spiked: What kind of things did your colleagues say to you in response to your essay?

Kriegman: They said that as a Reuters employee with white skin, it was not my place to criticise BLM. That they were embarrassed for and ashamed of me for doing it. That my summary of the academic literature was whitesplaining. That I was a troll and not worth engaging with. They even compared me to the Ku Klux Klan.

Really, I think this is what is going on across the news media. Why are the press perpetuating this falsehood? It is this bullying, where a large portion of the people at these news companies know that they cannot say anything critical of BLM.

spiked: Are journalists letting down the public when reporting on BLM?

Kriegman: News agencies have a responsibility to tell people the truth. To report honestly and accurately, especially about a matter of great public concern, where peoples lives are at stake. But they are failing completely.

Zac Kriegman was speaking to Paddy Hannam.

Correction: an earlier version of this article stated that Zac Kriegman was an employee of Reuters instead of Thomson Reuters.

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Crosswalks painted at six southern Dallas neighborhoods were dedicated on Monday, in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.

The City of Dallas dedicated painted crosswalks emblazoned with the phrase "All Black Lives Matter."

The crosswalks are located at six intersections along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Al Lipscomb Way:

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Crosswalks painted at six southern Dallas neighborhoods will be dedicated on Monday, in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.

The crosswalks are painted a bright red, with black lettering that spells out "All Black Lives Matter" with the words outlined in yellow.

The red symbolizes blood (i.e., Life), yellow symbolizes optimism and growth, and black signifies progressiveness and strength, according to the nonprofit Abounding Prosperity, Inc. that partnered with the city to install the crosswalk artwork.

"Streets connect people and this street installation project reminds us to join hands, hearts, and minds to make our communities safer with opportunity, freedom, and justice for all, said Kirk Myers, CEO of Abounding Prosperity, in a statement. The crosswalks can be a symbol of a new chapter for the city of Dallas. I want to thank all involved in this process for their collaboration and partnership to bring this project to life."

Abounding Prosperity has agreed to pay for the artwork and to maintain it for the next 10 years. The organization is dedicated to improving the lives of Black Americans, with a particular emphasis on gay & bisexual men, cisgender women, transgender women, and their families, according to a statement.

A public unveiling of the first completed intersection, at MLK and Malcolm X Boulevards, took place Monday at 12:30 p.m.

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All Black Lives Matter' Crosswalks Unveiled in Dallas on MLK Day - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Citation From the January 20, 2022, edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show

MARK LEVIN (HOST): It was originally slated for December 9, because of Pearl Harbor. Hitler declared war on the United States right after. The Wannsee Conference was rescheduled for January 20, 1942. 80 years ago. Reinhard Heydrich, deputy SS chief and head of the Reich Security Main office, summoned the state secretaries of Germany's most important ministries to coordinate their participation in achieving the final solution to the Jewish problem. Better methods had to be implemented. The participants around the table 80 years ago were no ordinary thugs. Most had attended Germany's most respected schools and universities. Eight of the 15 invitees held doctorates, and while they knew that Jews were being murdered en masse in occupied USSR,Heydrichleft little doubt that Hitler had ordered a final solution to the Jewish problem, meaning all of Europe's Jews were to be annihilated.Heydrichsought to involve Germany's government ministries to help achieve that goal.

Now, you expect opposition from some attendees, but according to Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann, who was present,Heydrichfound an unexpected air of agreement. Rather than expressing concerns or outright opposition, the eight PhDs in attendance expressed enthusiasm about being included in the plan. At his trial in Jerusalem many years later, Eichmann testified these gentlemen were sitting together and minced no words about it. They spoke about methods of killing the Jews, about murder, liquidation, about extermination. Gassing Jews drew particular interest. The importance of the Wannsee Conference 80 years ago cannot be overstated.

It marked the point at which Hitler's plans for genocide were shared with Germany's major ministries. It also demonstrated the need for the participation of those bureaucracies to accomplish genocide. And just as important, the summaries typed at the end of the conference, the Wannsee protocol is the only document in history codifying genocide as official state policy. The Wannsee Conference took fewer than 90 minutes to devise a plan to wipe out an entire population in Europe. It took place not in some backward country, but in one of the world's most technologically and scientifically advanced societies. 80 years later, the world must not ignore the Wannsee legacy. Everyone should read and ponder the Wannsee Protocol.

Never again should anyone confuse being educated with having morals. Some of Germany's most educated enthusiastically followed Hitler, and educated people today still forge strategies to legitimize crimes in the name of greater good. Never again should leaders of democracies turn a blind eye to evils unleashed against innocents by governments such as Communist China, or Iran's Mullah-ocracy with the hope that somehow playing pussyfoot with tyrants will change the course of history. That didn't work for Neville Chamberlain, and it won't work now. Finally, in the Middle East, we cannot expect Israel, the Gulf States and Egypt to accept a new Iran nuclear deal. A nuclearized Ayatollah would mean a possible nuclear holocaust with Jews, again, the principal target.

We've learned the hard way that words have consequences, and we must take tyrants at their word. If the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and other democracies would pause to study the Wannsee Protocol might save the world from another Holocaust. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the center's associate dean and global social action director. And you should take a look at the Wannsee protocol, January 20, 1942 and the detail it provides.

Approximately 11 million Jews were to be involved in the Final Solution of the Europe Jewish question. They broke down the numbers by country, how they would handle the problem. How there would be proper guidance. What about people of mixed blood? Well, it depends. Mixed blood of the first degree or the second degree or other degrees, it would depend. What of the children of mixed blood? It would depend. They would either go to that line or the other line. What about non-Jews who married Jews, how were they to be treated? What about sterilization and abortion? What about all of it? How are they to be dealt with?

In 90 minutes, they made those determinations. The Final Solution, 80 years ago today, hatched the Wannsee protocol. We ever taught about this, Mr. producer? No. Mr Call Screener, you ever taught about this? The Final Solution, the Holocaust, and nobody's taught about this in our public schools today. One of the great websites is the Avalon Project. I use it all the time. I mention it in "Liberty and Tyranny" as a resource. They have original documents to look at on the -- on their website. For American history, for world history, ancient history. Medieval history 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century. It's a fantastic site, but all the propaganda and so forth and so on.

It makes you wonder when you think of modern times, groups like Black Lives Matter, anti-Semitic groups, does it not? Being supported byhosts at ESPN, by its corporate masters, Disney. By the teams they cover, the NBA, the NFL. By mayors who write "BLM" and "Black Lives Matter" in their streets. In the original mission statement, not only are they Marxists, but they're anti-Semites. Makes you wonder about critical race theory being pushed by the left, including people in the media, in the media. Being pushed by the NEA and the AFT and superintendents all over the country. Critical race theory is an anti-Semitic, racist Marxist ideology.

Things can happen in industrialized society, in advanced societies. Things can happen. The Communist Revolution in Russia was not led by a peasant, a janitor. It was led by a college graduate, Lenin. The communist revolution in China was not led by a peasant, janitor. It was led by an educated man who studied Marx while he was working at a library. Mao Tse Tung. The communist revolution in Cuba wasn't led by a peasant or janitor. It was led by a lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro.

These Marxist movements, and in many cases, these fascistic movements, are led by highly educated people. Look at Italy. Mussolini was a journalist. A journalist, and a fascist. Marx was a journalist, wrote for American papers for over 12 years. And obviously, the Marxist.

I just thought I'd point it out, 80 years ago today the Final Solution was hatched in 1942.

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Fox News' Mark Levin compares Black Lives Matter to the Nazi architects of the Final Solution. The Holocaust - Media Matters for America

One of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter explains that she never expected the civil rights movement to become as monumental as it has.

Peacocks upcoming documentary Use of Force: the Policing of Black America features interviews with numerous individuals who are fighting injustice and police brutality, including Alicia Garza.

Garza, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, first coined the phrase Black Lives Matter in 2013, USA Today reported. It was created after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Cullors is executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails. Tometi runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.

Garza, who is also special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, told USA Today that the Black Lives Matter movement is intended to gather people "so they can connect offline and actually do something in their communities.

It was something that Garza had already been doing in her own community.

In Use of Force, Garza reflected that after attending college she returned to her hometown of Oakland, California where she hoped she could make a difference. There, she began doing advocacy work with organizations that fought against police brutality. She said she spent a decade organizing in San Francisco and more than five years in Oakland before taking on a more national cause.

No, I did not know that Black Lives Matter would become the force that it is today although I certainly want to say it was something that I wished for, but couldnt see beyond my own faith that it could happen and my own determination that we should try it," she explained.

She said that she, Tometi and Cullors created the platform for people so people could do more than be angry on social media.

On their site, they say their mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

They have organized some of the most impactful protests following police-involved shootings in recent history. Many of the hundreds ofprotests that erupted following the killing of George Floyd in 2020 were organized under the Black Lives Matter banner. Black Lives Matter has since become one of the biggest social justice movements in modern time.In fact,the New York Times reportedlast yearthat the movement may possibly be the largest in American history.

Use of Force: the Policing of Black America debuts on Friday.

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Black Lives Matters Co-Founder Alicia Garza Never Expected The Movement To Get So Big - Oxygen