A small group of
white protestors holding ‘White Lives Matter’ signs staged a demonstration
outside the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People building
in Houston on Sunday. Holding Confederate flags and assault rifles,
the group
of about 20 white people gathered in Houston to protest against the NAACP for
failing to condemn the perceived role of Black Lives Matter in relation to the
deaths of white police officers.
“We came out here to
protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking out against the
atrocities that organizations like Black Lives Matter and other pro-black
organizations have caused the attack and killing of white police officers, the
burning down of cities and things of that nature,” group member Ken Reed.
“If they’re going to
be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold
their people accountable.”
Reed said the group
wasn’t there to cause problems.
Sunday’s
demonstration in Houston’s predominantly black Third Ward quickly spurred a
counterprotest, which soon dwarfed the White Lives Matter gathering. As police
arrived and set up barricades around the White Lives Matter protesters, locals
stood across the street.
Some shouted, while
others shook their heads in disbelief that Confederate flags were flying in
front of an NAACP office in a black neighborhood. Police cleared out the crowd
around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
Source: Houston
Chronicle
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