By Laura Italiano
January 29, 2021 | 6:23pm
Black Lives Matter has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize — a pitch that lauds the movement’s fight against racial injustice but takes little note of the decidedly non-peaceful violence and property damage that has been committed in its name.
BLM was nominated for the humanitarian honor by a Norwegian politician who hailed its multi-racial breadth, calling it “a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice,” The Guardian reported.
The pol, Petter Eide, a member of Norway’s Parliament, brushed aside questions of the movement’s occasions of violence on Friday.
“Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful,” Eide said.
“Of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of either the police or counter-protestors.”
More than 93 percent of U.S. BLM protests have been peaceful, according to a September study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which looked at 7,750 demonstrations from four months of last year.
A woman with ‘BLM’ written on her cheek poses for a picture during a demonstration on May 31, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.Getty Images
Still, throughout the U.S. and Europe, BLM demonstrations have devolved into bottle-throwing, fire-setting, graffiti-spraying. statue-toppling and attacks on police in the years since it was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of the man who shot Trayvon Martin.
Most recently, in New York, hundreds of BLM demonstrators tangled with NYPD officers in City Hall Park on Martin Luther King Day.
Eleven cops suffered minor injuries, including a captain who was struck in the head with a bottle, but who was wearing a helmet at the time.
Still, throughout the U.S. and Europe, BLM demonstrations have devolved into bottle-throwing, fire-setting, graffiti-spraying. statue-toppling and attacks on police in the years since it was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of the man who shot Trayvon Martin.
Most recently, in New York, hundreds of BLM demonstrators tangled with NYPD officers in City Hall Park on Martin Luther King Day.
Eleven cops suffered minor injuries, including a captain who was struck in the head with a bottle, but who was wearing a helmet at the time.
A protester waves a Black Lives Matter flag as others are seen in the Manhattan bound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Brooklyn Tower as they block traffic on Sept. 25, 2020.Robert Mecea
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has been nominated for a second time, by another Norweigan pol.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a far-right member of Parliament, cited Trump’s role in normalizing relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The Norway-based Nobel Committee is expected to choose the winners in November.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has been nominated for a second time, by another Norweigan pol.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a far-right member of Parliament, cited Trump’s role in normalizing relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The Norway-based Nobel Committee is expected to choose the winners in November.
A man recites spoken word poetry at a makeshift memorial honoring George Floyd, at the spot where he was taken into custody, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 1, 2020.REUTERS
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