Ben & Jerry’s Launches Huge Black Lives Matter Campaign

“All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until Black lives matter.” They thought they were being profound. Instead, they just said that all lives don’t matter. Since my life doesn’t matter to them, my money doesn’t go to them.

Bye Cherry Garcia –you are my favorite but cannot support this action
taken by Ben & Jerry’s — What about Blue Lives Matter or better yet — ALL
lives matter. The statistics on all LEO shootings are skewed to only emphasize
one race — let the statics stand for themselves instead of letting the media
pick and choose what they report –

Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in
2015. According to data compiled
by The Washington Post, 50
percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent
were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or “were armed or
otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force,”
according to Mac Donald in a speech at
Hillsdale College.

Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist
treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the
population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as Mac
Donald writes in The
Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57
percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the
country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in
these counties.

“Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority
communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed
and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk
of using lethal force,” writes MacDonald.

MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that
blacks “commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies,
and 66 percent of all violent crime” in New York City, even though they
consist of 23 percent of the city’s population.

“The black violent crime rate would actually predict that
more than 26 percent of police victims would be black,” MacDonald said.
“Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with
violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in
black neighborhoods.”

2. More
whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According
to Mac Donald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to
police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the
result of police officers.

“If we’re going to have a ‘Lives Matter’ anti-police
movement, it would be more appropriately named “White and Hispanic Lives
Matter,'” said Mac Donald in her Hillsdale speech.

Post’s data
does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a
cop than an unarmed white man…but this does not tell the whole story. In August
2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police
gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by
the end of 2015. But Mac Donald points out in The Marshall Project that
looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different
picture:

The “unarmed” label is
literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing
situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was
certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly
tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own
equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own
assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed
black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in
justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then
racism could have played no role in their deaths.

In one of those unintended
cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a
gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun
traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed
$2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again
pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a
61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but
his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral
damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a
convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The
suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops
returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat.
That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed
black victim” of police fire.

Mac Donald examines a
number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and
Prince George’s County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer’s
holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually “jumped the
officer” and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was
“fearing for his life.” MacDonald also notes that there was an
instance in 2015 where “three officers were killed with their own guns,
which the suspects had wrestled from them.”

4. Black
and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white
officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report
in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further
confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania
criminologist Greg Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3
times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.

5. Blacks
are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is
according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are
black. According to Mac Donald, the police officer is 18.5 times more
likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.

Despite the facts, the
anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have
resulted in what Mac Donald calls the “Ferguson Effect,” as murders
have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result
of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of
being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops
victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.

Anti-police rhetoric has
deadly consequences.

P.S.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith
fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of the forthcoming “The War on
Cops.”

I’m going to go buy some Haagen Dazs now.

Screw Ben & Jerry’s

FTP!!

I am a victim of police abuse. I do not support the police state. BLM is a hate group like all abrahamic cults

Black lives do indeed matter, but then again, I’m just a guy who sells grape soda and fried chicken.

New flavor for the boys:

Lie Berry — tastes like sh*t and made of not a bit of truth.

You should support Martin Luther King’s protests or Ghandi’s protests. Those were peaceful protests where the other side became violent. You do not support any group that sanctions marching in the streets yelling “what do we want? dead cops. When do we want them? now.”
And you certainly do not support any movement that inspires violence and looting in it’s participants and then does not condemn that violence and looting.
Just shameful.

I’m in on a boycott. Let them learn about supporting SJW nonsense/BLM thuggery the Target way – through their wallets.

I’ll miss Pistachio Pistachio.

B&J thank you for standing up for your fellow Americans

Racist much here? When you say “blue lives matter” are you saying that ONLY police lives matter, or that, they as a group have been targeted and that people need to be aware of what they are going through? If the first, then you must be one yourself or don’t care about your own life. If it’s the second, then you know damn well what the point of BLM is and are choosing to ignore it in favor of racist hate speech and fear mongering. At no point has BLM, as a group, advocated violence or lawless behavior and advocates PEACEFUL PROTEST…. which is SUPPOSED to be one of our Constitutional Rights, or do those only apply to white people? Yes, there have been some people who engaged in behavior not condoned by the group. Does that automatically make the entire group guilty? If so, then do we, as people of color get to hold all whites guilty for the actions of people associated with KKK, Aryan Nations and other cowardly hate groups? #NativeLivesMatterToo

Can’t support a company that supports terrorism. Better hope BLM buys your product.

I guess I’m going to have to get some lactaid so I can make up for those of you that will no longer buy Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream! Yummy! #blacklivesmatter

Boycotting Ben & Jerry’s … try supporting criminals without MY money.

This is just more evidence that is being ignored by many in society. There is a problem with police brutality and the way police interact with the community.
Like any problem admitting it is half the battle

ALL Lives Matter. I am Hispanic and I find this movement offensive. I am a minority as well, but America is stuck in a dichotomy of Black and White. Hispanics face similar injustices, but they are ignored.
Additionally, America is stuck with the Black and Blue dichotomy- Blacks and Cops. The issue is class. White Americans are treated the same in low income communities. Low income communities have high levels of crime and lower levels of education. As Americans, we need to focus on pushing education and programs to help the youth get out of these communities, eliminate the gangs, drugs and guns, and assist those that are too impoverished to leave. Nothing is as simple as it seems.
The police officers want to go home to their families, but are faced with strangers with unknown intentions. They are human like everyone else-some make bad decisions.