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Black Lives Matter timeline

By paupmal

  • Civil rights demonstrations

    "BLM" sign - continuation, starts to be a tradition

  • Obama's election and laws

    New laws : Limited military grade weapons, consent decrees, "pattern and practice" investigation

  • Death of Trayvon Martin, beginning of demonstrations

    Killed by a shooting
    It got 44 days to the killer to be arrested

  • Alicia Garza's post on Facebook "Black Lives Matter'

    Then, a new hashtag has been created : #BLM by Patrisse Cullors
    March 2013 : begin of a "call of action" by Cullors

  • Eric Garner death in July

    Killed by a police officer because of suspision of illegal cigarettes. Starts new demonstrations : "I can't breathe" signs

  • Michael Brown J.R death in September

    Killed by a police officer, because he stole a pack of cigarettes.

  • "BLM" movement on Twitter

    20 M tweets a day
  • Period: to

    More and more black people killed by policemen...

    Despite Obama's laws
    NO criminal charges

  • Donald Trump's election and opinion

    He is against the BLM movement

  • "All Lives Matter" "White Lives Matter" movements

    Some journalists start to wonder if the BLM was somehow racist to white and colored people.

  • Ahmaud Arbery death / Breonna Taylor death

    Both shot by the police

  • BLM demonstrations all around the world

  • Police reform ? Defund the police ?

  • Georges Floyd death

    Killed by a police officer
    The video went viral