Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother
Eradicating BLM Plaza Feels Like Dangerous Omen
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A Black mom who misplaced her son earlier than the rise of the Black Lives Matter motion says the elimination of BLM Plaza in our nation’s capital is an indication the nation is in a nasty place.
Ahmaud Arbery‘s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, tells TMZ … the elimination of the BLM mural in Washington, D.C. “feels like a bad omen” and he or she says it serves as “a reminder of how fragile progress can be.”
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Wanda says BLM was by no means about murals, monuments, or symbolic gestures … it is at all times been about accountability, justice and significant change — however she would not just like the change being made right here.
As we reported … Jamie Foxx says Black American social efforts are taking a step again on account of President Trump pressuring D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to take away the mural below menace of shedding federal funding.
Arbery was murdered in February 2020 whereas out for a run in Georgia … and video of his homicide by the hands of three white males sparked widespread outrage.
BLM actually took off after George Floyd was murdered by a white cop months later, sparking summer season protests nationwide … however Arbery’s case stays an enormous a part of the motion … as does Breonna Taylor‘s loss of life. The Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown killings additionally prompted the early beginnings of the BLM trigger.
Lee Merritt, an legal professional who has labored with the households of Arbery, Floyd and Taylor, tells TMZ … “Justice isn’t measured in murals — it’s measured in laws, accountability, and protecting Black lives.”
On that entrance, Merritt says … “Accountability came when the men who murdered Ahmaud were sentenced to life. Reform came with the passage of the Ahmaud Arbery Hate Crimes Act. And policy change came when Georgia repealed the vigilante defense they used to justify their actions.”
