The mayor has had a banner hanging over the door to city hall in Somerville, Ma for over a year now, that has angered the city’s police.  The banner says “Black Lives Matter.”  The police asked for the sign to be removed and replaced with one that says “All Lives Matter”, but Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone refused the request out of hand.   Curtatone said that the Black Lives Banner speaks to all lives.  No, it doesn’t.

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) extended an invitation to followers of the Black Lives Matter movement to participate in a barbecue to start a constructive dialogue between the two groups. However, the police were met with flat-out rejection by a spokesperson who referred to law enforcement as “pigs.”

“A BBQ is definitely not going to stop this blockade,” Karissa Lewis, a self-described “radical black farmer from East Oakland,” told local Fox affiliate KTVU. “And as a radical-black farmer from East Oakland, I eat pigs, I don’t eat with them,” she said.

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