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‘Benefitting Off The Blood Of Our Loved Ones’: Mothers Of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor Slam Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter

Emily Zanotti
‘Benefitting Off The Blood Of Our Loved Ones’: Mothers Of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor Slam Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter
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Mothers of black men and women killed in several high-profile police-involved shootings are taking aim at the national Black Lives Matter organization and its outgoing co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, for profiting off the deaths of their loved ones and then ducking accountability.

The mothers of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, and others are lashing out just as Cullors steps down, accusing both BLM and Cullors of using their children’s deaths to raise money but failing to pass the money on to black families in need.

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