The leading organizer of the Black Lives Matter movement in Washington, D.C., told a CNN audience in a recent interview with Carol Costello that widespread black-on-black crime just doesn't exist – the notion is fabricated.
"It's important to talk about the myth of black-on-black crime as just that – a myth," said Aaron Goggans, head of Black Lives Matter, DC, on CNN. "Any Google search of the term comes up with a lot of different articles."
His comments came in context of discussing remarks made by former NFL Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who slammed the Black Lives Matter movement for ignoring the statistics of black-on-black crimes and harping instead on instances of white officers fatally shooting black suspects. Lewis, as WND reported, posted the scathing assessment of Black Lives Matter on his Facebook page, and it shortly after went viral.
But not all responded to Lewis with favor.
Costello asked Goggans: "So, Ray Lewis is wrong?"
And Goggans said, the Daily Caller reported: "Ray Lewis is talking about a lot of myths and preconceptions about what the [Black Lives Matter] movement is. Intercommunity crime happens in all communities across the country and it is a problem that the movement of Black Lives is focusing on. The movement of Black Lives is also focusing on state sanctioned violence. It's a different thing."
And Goggans went on, the Daily Caller reported: "It's not just a few white cops killing a few unarmed black men. It's actually the state systematically creating up systems that are killing black people, both black women, black children, black queer, black men, black trans and black gender non-conforming folks."