MSNBC host Joy Reid took issue with President Trump linking Black Lives Matter to anti-police rhetoric and violence, claiming there is “zero” evidence the movement has encouraged that.
“There is absolutely zero, none, zero evidence that Black Lives Matter has ever pushed for anything violent, pushed for anything violent to happen to police,” Reid said on MSNBC Thursday night following the conclusion of the final presidential debate.
.@JoyAnnReid: “There is absolutely zero, none, zero evidence that Black Lives Matter has ever pushed for anything violent, pushed for anything violent to happen to police.” pic.twitter.com/Oc8XdxcT4S
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 23, 2020
Reid added that “not a single person knows who those people were” referring to the protesters Trump mentioned in the debate who could be seen holding Black Lives Matter signs chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon.”
In August, a Black Lives Matter speaker declared war on “filthy, disgusting animal” police officers and in September, a Black Lives Matter protester could be heard yelling that police officers need “to start being killed like y’all kill us.”
After two police officers were shot at point black range sitting in their patrol car in Los Angeles earlier this year, Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the entrance to the hospital the officers were sent to, reportedly yelling, “we hope they die.”
A man who murdered five Dallas police officers in 2015 told police before being killed that he was “upset over Black Lives Matter.”
