The media and individuals should exercise diligence and execute systematic investigation before reporting on a news story. The media and individuals should never falsely credit work done by one group of activists to another group of activists. This is exactly what has happened with the false and misleading reporting that “Black Lives Matter” offered a 10 point plan to curb police killings.”
“The 10 Point Manifesto” to curb police killings was not authored by “Black Lives Matter”—but instead was published by founders of the activist group” We The Protesters” of Ferguson and presented on the www.joincampaignzero.org website.
Brittany Packnett, DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie (ShordeeDooWhop) and Samuel Sinyangwe, are the publishers of “The 10 Point Manifesto”—and the four are co-founders of the social activist group “We The Protesters.” Note: the website also lists Dr. Cornel Fresh and Kay Ray as members of the "We The Protesters" planning team--and short bio's can be read on each activist.
Packnett is 30 years old, he is an activist in St. Louis, Missouri—he was a member of President Obama’s White House policing taskforce.
McKesson also 30 (has been interviewed on national TV several times) and Elzie 25 have been among the most active and zealot protestors in Ferguson, Missouri following the police killing of Michael Brown.
Sinyangwe 24 is a community organizer and talented policy specialist. Dr. Fresh 33 is a activist, journalist via social media, and organizer, and Kay Ray 24 is a community organzer who uses her Twitter page to convey what is happening in Ferguson.
Excerpts and summary from the article from: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/21/protesters-unveil-police-policy-proposals
While the name has been applied to a loosely affiliated collection of activist groups in the year since the Ferguson demonstrations, “Black Lives Matter” is a single organization that was founded following the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012.
“We’re all part of the movement for black lives, which is different to Black Lives Matter as an organization,” said Sinyangwe. “The movement is wider than that organization. They and we are pieces of it.”
Packnett said the policies had been compiled over several months and incorporated some recommendations made earlier this year by President Obama’s White House policing taskforce, on which she sat.
It also comprises ideas from more than two dozen activists and organizers to ensure it is “truly reflective of the broad and decentralized nature of the movement,” she said.
McKesson said: “It’s based on what we have learned over the past year and on direct feedback from protesters around the country.”
Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both pursed dialogue with members of this new civil rights movement.
McKesson was invited and attended Hillary Clinton’s formal campaign launch in New York in June. “The 10 Point Manifesto” published by “We The Protesters” of Ferguson is an example of what Hillary Clinton suggested was needed (and still is) by Julius Jones of “Black Lives Matter "--when she met with Jones and his “Black Lives Matter” members on the widely circulated tape of the meeting between them. .
McKesson has also been engaged with Bernie Sanders directly on Twitter to organize a meeting centered on the Democratic candidates’ racial justice platform.
Great Job “We The Protesters”!
The www.joincampaignzero.org website lists “The 10 Point Manifesto”—which is a painstaking and excellent job of compilation and inclusion of ideas not only from various activist groups, individual activists, President Obama’s task force, police departments etc.—but also includes input and PDF links from proposals and solutions from current Democratic and Republican presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley.
The site also in the same PDF links; lists presidential candidates who (to date) have made no proposals for solutions like Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.
The site is also ever-evolving, as the website manager’s state they are continually looking for more input and additions from activists, organizers, and concerned citizens nationwide.
The 10 Point Manifesto by “We The Protesters” of Ferguson–each manifesto can be clicked on and read in detail on the www.joincampaignzero.org website.
1. End Broken Windows Policing
2. Community Oversight
3. Limit use of Force
4. Independently investigate and prosecute
5. Community Representation
6. Body Cams/Film the Police
7. Training
8. End for Profit Policing
9. Demilitarization
10. Fair Police Union Contracts