{"id":190447,"date":"2021-03-04T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190447"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:15:22","slug":"family-of-mike-brown-ferguson-protest-organizers-demand-20-million-from-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-mike-brown-ferguson-protest-organizers-demand-20-million-from-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Of Mike Brown, Ferguson Protest Organizers Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamily-of-mike-brown-ferguson-protest-organizers-demand-20-million-from-black-lives-matter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-483737276.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The father of Mike Brown, a black man killed in a police-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and the head of a Ferguson community support group, the\u00a0International Black Freedom Alliance, are demanding the national Black Lives Matter organization cut them a check for $20 million after finding out BLM received more than $90 million in donations after the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Brown Sr. and local community organizer\u00a0Tony Russell\u00a0have demanded the Black Lives Matter organization provide $20M to continue their work in Ferguson, Missouri,\u201d Yahoo News reported earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Brown was killed in an altercation with Ferguson, Missouri, police in August of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to History.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many details differ, but most accounts agree that [Officer Darren] Wilson saw Brown and [Dorian] Johnson walking in the street, demanded they get on the sidewalk, then stopped his police SUV in front of them in order to confront them. He and Brown had an altercation through the open window of the car, during which Wilson fired twice. Brown and Johnson tried to leave, Wilson exited his car to pursue them, and at some point Brown turned back around to face Wilson, who then fired 12 shots, six of which hit Brown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilson claimed he shot Brown in self-defense. The confrontation sparked national media coverage and a series of protests \u2014 and riots \u2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Although Mike Brown\u2019s death was among the first high-profile incidents to give rise to the national Black Lives Matter movement, Mike Brown\u2019s father says the family has received nearly nothing from the national BLM organization, even after BLM\u2019s profile \u2014 and coffers \u2014 grew significantly in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the Twitter thread, Brown Sr. has only received $500 from any BLM affiliated group since his son\u2019s 2014 killing, despite being a community figure who organizes and supports other families in healing and empowerment,\u201d Yahoo notes. \u201cThe demand is in response to news of BLM receiving over $90M in response to the uprisings launched after the deaths of\u00a0George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n<p>Brown and Russell appear together in a social media video making the request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of many activists in the St. Louis area, I\u2019m joined by Mike Brown Sr., the father of Mike Brown Jr. Today, we hold Black Lives Matter accountable,\u201d Russell says.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yahoo News, Brown, Sr., and Russell are not alone in wondering where money, which BLM had pledged to spend on minority communities experiencing racism, ended up \u2014 and BLM only started releasing information on its financials this year when they filed paperwork showing $60 million in assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral chapters of BLM across the country have expressed their desire for transparency regarding fundraising in the organization,\u201d the outlet notes, but says that founder Patrisse Cullors responded that \u201cthings behind-the-scenes are not what people may assume,\u201d despite BLM\u2019s pledge to \u201creinvest\u201d the money they received in donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our biggest goals this year is taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution we\u2019ve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years,\u201d Cullors said in an interview earlier this year. \u201cBecause the BLM movement was larger than life \u2014 and it is larger than life \u2014 people made very huge assumptions about what our actual finances looked like. We were often scraping for money, and this year was the first year where we were resourced in the way we deserved to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell and Brown, Sr., said on social media that they believe they deserve some of those resources. They \u201chope to use the money for the Chosen For Change Foundation, the Mike Brown Community Center, organizing grants for Ferguson protests and activists, various programs and services in the Black community, and the annual Aug. 9 commemorations of Brown\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Mike Brown, a black man killed in a police-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and the head of a Ferguson community support group, the\u00a0International Black Freedom &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274807,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-483737276.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Family Of Mike Brown, Ferguson Protest Organizers Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-483737276.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Family Of Mike Brown, Ferguson Protest Organizers Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}