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NAACP Chapter President: Being A Police Officer ‘Is A Choice,’ ‘No Such Thing As Blue Lives’

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NAACP Chapter President: Being A Police Officer ‘Is A Choice,’ ‘No Such Thing As Blue Lives’
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According to NAACP chapter president Bishop Talbert Swan, there is “no such thing as Blue Lives” because police choose to do their jobs whereas black people do not choose the color of their skin.

In a Twitter post on Saturday, the NAACP Greater Springfield president said that while the death or murder of a police officer is a terrible tragedy, it does not have the same implication as a black person being gunned down by police.

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