After watching the statistics and frustration of Tulsa Police Chief Franklin on the morning news yesterday, it has really hit home about what he says regarding "officer involved shootings" and the amount of "black-on-black" homicides being committed in Tulsa. To quote Chief Franklin's tweet from July 26, 2021:

"More than 100 shots were fired in the City’s latest homicide on Saturday night. Last night more than 60 shots were fired at a shooting scene. Surely protesters are organizing against such violence!! Without much fanfare and limelight @TulsaPolice has been working the problem" (4:52 PM · Jul 26, 2021). 

To me, this seems consistant with the Black Lives Matter organizers spouting empassioned rhetoric concerning officer-involved shootings of persons of color, yet are conspicously absent and show how these same "Black Lives" do not seem to matter when the shootings are perpetuated by those same persons of color, or the innocents who are caught in the crossfire. Where are the community organizers and protestors who were so eager to riot against racism and abuse of authority? What are they doing now to help stem the flow of black blood in our city streets by other black lives?  Maybe Chief Franklin is correct when he says, "There is much black-on-black crime in Tulsa..., and nobody seems to care".

(Header image coutesy of The Tulsa World)