Democrats Embrace Black Lives Matter Movement

Democrats at the party’s national convention Tuesday evening embraced the Black Lives Matter campaign, welcoming to the stage a handful of mothers whose children had died from gun violence or in police custody. But the party’s focus on black lives drew the ire of a police union that suggested blue lives were being disregarded. And U.S. criminal justice policies under both Democratic and Republican administrations came in for heavy criticism during a protest Tuesday afternoon in the city’s...

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