A prominent Black Lives Matter activist was shot and killed Tuesday, apparently while riding his bicycle in New Orleans, authorities said. [ With a flying leap, a black activist tried to take down a Confederate flag in Charleston, S.C. ]Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to a call about a man who was lying on the ground on Bienville Street asking for help, according to a police report. They spotted a black mountain bike across the street “covered in blood along the right side of the bike,” the report said. Newsome made headlines of her own in 2015 when she removed the Confederate flag from a pole outside the South Carolina statehouse. “Thoughts & prayers to his family and community.”Read more:Before Black Lives Matter, Black Power’s revolutionary artLong before Black Lives Matter, Washington tried a police and citizens experiment

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2018 20:40 UTC