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BLM and the Black community have condemned the heinous hate crime, which police have not connected to any group. Yet, #BLMKidnapping prematurely trended on social media.
White Nationalists Blame Black Lives Matter for Chicago Torture Incident
By Kaitlyn D'Onofrio / January 6, 2017
Four Black people in Chicago on Thursday were charged with hate crimes after they broadcast a video of themselves live on Facebook viciously attacking a mentally ill young white man as they yelled, “F*** white people!” and “F*** Donald Trump!” Many white nationalists have blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for being behind the attack.
All four perpetrators were charged with aggravated unlawful restraint, felony aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery while committing a hate crime.
The disturbing incident drew many responses, including from President Barack Obama, who called the incident “despicable.” Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), called the video “shocking” and said he “would not rule out race” as a motivating factor behind the crime, adding, “I’m glad the authorities have moved so quickly.”
And while the Chicago police confirmed they have not made any connection between the crime and a specific group, known members of the white nationalist alt-right movement immediately connected the video to Black Lives Matter, with #BLMKidnapping trending on social media, simply because the kidnappers were Black.
Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist group, questioned why BLM activist and former candidate for Baltimore mayor DeRay McKesson was not “on the terrorism watch list” and compared the torture video to white supremacist Dylann Roof’s murder of nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina in June 2015.
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Richard ? Spencer ✔ @RichardBSpencer
Why isn't @deray on the terrorism watch list @realDonaldTrump for his anti white hate? #blmkidnapping
8:10 AM - 5 Jan 2017
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Richard ? Spencer ✔ @RichardBSpencer
Which story will get more coverage? Dylan Roof or #blmkidnapping. Roof will for the same reason it's not news when a dog bites a man.
8:20 AM - 5 Jan 2017
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Mike Cernovich, a known conservative media personality, said BLM must disavow “every crime or else they support it.”
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Mike Cernovich ?? ✔ @Cernovich
If Trump must "disavow" every random Internet troll, then #BlackLivesMatter must disavow every crime or else they support it. #BLMKidnapping
2:58 AM - 5 Jan 2017
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Black Lives Matter Chicago posted a statement on its Facebook page calling it “absolutely perplexing and twisted that people are associating this atrocity with this organization and movement.”
McKesson took to Twitter to disassociate BLM from the crime.
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deray mckesson ✔ @deray
It goes without saying that the actions being branded by the far-right as the "BLM Kidnapping" have nothing to do w/ the movement.
1:53 PM - 5 Jan 2017
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Another tweet that appeared to be from McKesson’s account went widespread, in which McKesson said he didn’t “see anything wrong with the Chicago Facebook video.” The tweet could not be found on his account, and he said it was “not real” and “obviously photoshopped.”
Many people used the hashtag #BLMKidnapping to draw attention to the fact that while the crime was disturbing, to connect it to BLM simply because the perpetrators were Black is wrong.
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Matthew Kick @MatthewKick
Dylann Roof does not represent all whites. #BLMKidnapping suspects do not represent all blacks. There are a few bad seeds in every race.
2:25 PM - 5 Jan 2017
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Benjamin Dixon ? @TheBpDShow
Blaming BLM for Chicago kidnapping though they never once mentioned BLM makes it okay to blame all white ppl for Dylann Roof#BLMKidnapping
1:16 PM - 5 Jan 2017
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Malaika Foon @UnfriendlyBG
#BLMKidnapping
Wrong? Yes
Racially motivated hate crime? Yes
Aligned w/ the beliefs and values of BLM? No.
Say it with me everyone
11:20 AM - 5 Jan 2017
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“Hate doesn’t have a color”
Dimitri Roberts, a former Chicago police officer, told CNN that he believes what happened is a hate crime but not one that can be connected to BLM.
“This is hate. And hate doesn’t have a color. So for folks to talk about this is somehow connected to Black Lives Matter is absolutely the wrong way to look at this,” he said.
“Let’s address why this happened. This happened because there was some ignorance, and there are some folks that want to sensationalize their message and become Facebook stars, all right? So let’s not start promoting hashtags or be on one side of this issue when we have a real opportunity to unify behind this.”
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