Former Baltimore Raven star, Ray Lewis is questioning the Black Lives Matter movement on why they are failing to address black on black violence. He points out that in Chicago alone, shootings have risen over 80% compared to the same time in 2015. The ESPN NFL analyst said:
“I’m trying to figure out if black lives really matter, then in Chicago alone the murder rate has soared 72 percent in 2016. Eighty-eight percent in the first three months of 2016 compared to last year. I’m trying to ask the question to an organization of black lives, if they really mattered, then why not riot now?”
“Why do we always find ourselves half the victims, and now we have the separation once again that we’re being victimized because of one bad white cop, two bad white cops, three bad white cops, killing a young black brother. But every day we have black-on-black crime killing each other. … The March murder rate rose by 29 percent, but we’re not rioting in the streets about black on black killing each other.”
This is not the first time the star has blasted the Black Lives Matter group. He also chastised them for the rioting in Baltimore:
https://youtu.be/7GTTdAg1DjY