A Black Lives Matter leader on Tuesday affirmed the movement’s support for Jussie Smollett , the actor who allegedly falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime, arguing that activists “can never believe police” over a black man. Melina Abdullah, a former California State University professor and the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, defended Smollett as having been “courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom” and criticized the trial as a “white supremacist charade.” “So let’s be clear: we love everybody in our community,” Abdullah wrote in a statement...
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