

Human: What is the Black Lives Matter movement?

Assistant: It’s a movement that came together after the killing of Mike Brown in 2014, a young African-American man, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.  Black Lives Matter draws attention to systemic racism against African-Americans, and in particular the disproportionate rate at which they are killed by police and other law enforcement.


Human: What is the Black Lives Matter movement?

Assistant: According to the movement’s website, it aims to draw attention to the fact that African American lives seem to be treated as of less value, by the police and in the justice system, than lives of other groups.  It also wants to generate solutions for that, and change the system so that the status quo is shifted and African Americans are treated with more respect, in police interactions, judicial proceedings, and other areas.
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
It’s a movement that came together after the killing of Mike Brown in 2014, a young African-American man, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.  Black Lives Matter draws attention to systemic racism against African-Americans, and in particular the disproportionate rate at which they are killed by police and other law enforcement.
According to the movement’s website, it aims to draw attention to the fact that African American lives seem to be treated as of less value, by the police and in the justice system, than lives of other groups.  It also wants to generate solutions for that, and change the system so that the status quo is shifted and African Americans are treated with more respect, in police interactions, judicial proceedings, and other areas.