Color-blind: Black Dallas police officer protects racist ‘White Lives Matter’ protesters holding Confederate flags and signs reading ‘Black Lives Kill’
Black police officer stood guard in front of the White Lives Matter group
‘It’s a visual representation of irony and hypocrisy’, said one Twitter user
Protest was held as race relations in the US are under further strain
By CHRIS KITCHING
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 July 2016
A black police officer has been praised online for protecting a group of racist white protesters who carried Confederate flags and signs reading ‘White Lives Matter’ and ‘Black Lives Kill’ during a demonstration in Dallas.
Footage of the protest shows at least one black officer, armed with a rifle, standing guard in front of the protesters as they argued with passers-by.
The White Lives Matter rally – a counterdemonstration to the Black Lives Matter movement – was held on Sunday following this month’s police shooting deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and the killings Dallas police officers – events which have further strained race relations.
The video was posted on Twitter by Dallas Morning News reporter Elizabeth Djinis and flooded with comments from viewers who pointed out that a black police officer was protecting the white protesters.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘It’s a visual representation of #irony and #hypocrisy; #Racist protesters using black police officers for protection.’
Another wrote: ‘Black cops protecting them makes this a real life satirical cartoon.’
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