Infiltration of the BLM Protests Falls on Anniversary of Tulsa Race Riot

In a 24-hour period between May 31 and June 1, the thriving neighborhood known as ‘Black Wall Street’ was burnt to the ground by a mob of over 2,000 white people. The mob was empowered by and under the protection of city and state officials in Tulsa Oklahoma. 

The American Red Cross said the death toll was around 300 people, but the exact number remains unknown. 

1,200 black-owned houses and businesses, a dozen churches, a school, a hospital and the Greenwood neighborhood public library were completely destroyed. 

On this day Black Tulsans experienced the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. History. 

99 years later, the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot are still awaiting justice and reparations. No one was ever held responsible for the massacre and there has never been a reinvestment in that neighborhood or it’s residents. 

99 years later, we still can’t breathe!

 

On May 30, 2020 hundreds of people gathered in Downtown Rochester, NY to protest the death of another unarmed black man who was killed at the hands of police on Memorial Day.

The viral video of George Floyd taking his last breath under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, MN has turned the Nation’s attention away from the Coronavirus and put the spotlight back on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Peaceful protests were organized in several cities around America, with marchers and speakers sharing their disgust with dirty cops getting away with murder. 

After the rally was over, a group of outsiders labeled by the RPD Police Chief as “anarchists”, seized the opportunity to incite a riot by flipping over cop cars and setting them on fire outside. 

“These people set a trap and our community fell in,” Mayor Warren said Sunday morning.

 

A few of these outsiders were caught on camera breaking the windows of popular retail shops, including the Rainbow Apparel on Lake Avenue. (See Video Below)

Rochester residents who have been unemployed for months due to the pandemic, frustrated by the health and economic disparities they have suffered from for years and flat out angry about police brutality and a system of corruption and injustice did indeed fall into that trap set by the outsiders and the looting began.

Thankfully no one was shot, as suggested in a tweet by the 45th President of the United States.

However several peaceful protestors were injured by pepper balls and tear gas that was used on the crowd by the Rochester Police Department. 

In the Tulsa Riot of 1921 black and white people clearly stood on opposite sides of the fight. In 2020 white people fight alongside black and brown people for justice and equality. 

The anarchists who infiltrated the Black Lives Matter Movement have a more sinister agenda to not only destroy private property, but to blame the destruction on people of color and further convince America that our lives do NOT matter!