Black Lives Matter pulls out of SF Pride

They don’t like that there will be increased police presence.

Bay Area members of the black millennial social justice movement withdrew from the event on Friday, stating that they will no longer participate in this weekend’s festivities in response to SF Pride organizers’ push for increased police presence.

“The Black Lives Matter network is grateful to the people of San Francisco for choosing us, we choose you too,” Malkia Cyril, a Black Lives Matter member, said in a press release. “As queer people of color, we are disproportionately targeted by both vigilante and police violence. We know first hand that increasing the police presence at Pride does not increase safety for all people. Militarizing these events increases the potential for harm to our communities and we hope in the future SF Pride will consider community-centered approaches to security at pride events.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.