{"id":413862,"date":"2021-04-12T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=413862"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:28:32","slug":"watch-rochester-leaders-blast-blm-activists-as-murder-spikes-where-are-the-protests-when-we-kill-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rochester-leaders-blast-blm-activists-as-murder-spikes-where-are-the-protests-when-we-kill-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rochester Leaders Blast BLM Activists As Murder Spikes: Where Are The Protests When We Kill Ourselves?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fwatch-rochester-leaders-blast-blm-activists-as-murder-spikes-where-are-the-protests-when-we-kill-ourselves%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=413862&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\/04\/fb_image-1465.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Residents of Rochester, New York, stepped up last week to draw attention to the massive spike in violence and homicide in the area, blasting left-wing Black Lives Matter activists for ignoring crime when it doesn\u2019t involve police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the police were killing us at the rate we\u2019re killing ourselves, I suspect this town would be on fire,\u201d said Rudy Rivera, CEO of Rochester\u2019s Father Laurence Tracy Advocacy Center on North Clinton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester\u2019s homicides have exploded this year, nearly tripling the number of murders recorded last year at this time, Spectrum News <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/rochester\/news\/2021\/04\/09\/-where-s-the-outrage---rochester-advocates-call-for-help-in-wake-of-recent-homicides\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Rochester man&nbsp;Markese Estimable, 33, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/rochester-new-york-news\/victim-in-clinton-avenue-shooting-identified\/6058251\/\">killed<\/a>&nbsp;outside the Advocacy Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty to 30 people there. This man dying on the floor. People walked by him like he was a cigarette butt,\u201d Rivera recalled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/rochester-new-york-news\/victim-in-clinton-avenue-shooting-identified\/6058251\/\">according<\/a> to WHEC News. \u201cThey robbed the young man. People took selfies while the man was dying. The man reached out but nobody paid attention. And that level of depravity, for the people who live here, should not have to endure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rochester resident Ida Perez echoed Rivera\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry every time I leave my house and when I\u2019m coming home and have to turn the corner of Scramtom if I\u2019m going to be one of those people in the crossfire,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera noted of the protesting he saw this summer in response to the death of a black man named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-no-charges-will-be-filed-against-officers-in-daniel-prude-case\">Daniel Prude<\/a> following a police interaction. The activists who sparked the protests \u2014 and many nights of subsequent destructive, violent rioting in the city \u2014 are now nowhere to be found as murder continues to spike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we kill ourselves, I say to myself, where are the protests lining this street?&#8217;\u201d Rivera questioned activists. \u201cWhere are the people within our own community, who know what\u2019s going on here? And that\u2019s the most tragic part of this whole story, everybody knows what\u2019s happening here, and yet, it persists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are the voices\u201d of the activists who held press conferences nearly every day summer over officer-involved incidents, Rivera asked.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Rochester anti-police activist Ashley Gantt, co-leader of Free the People Roc, made waves last summer when she said she did not \u201ccare if the whole city burned down.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/public-schools-near-rochester-mandate-anti-racist-curriculum-overseen-by-blm-leader-who-said-i-dont-care-if-the-whole-city-burned-down\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26.871121718377\">\n<p><em>\u201cIf there was looting, if there was things on fire, that is not what is important. What is important is why these things happen,\u201d Gantt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ3u_C-SiYI&amp;ab_channel=WXXINews\">said<\/a>, telling the media they have a job \u201cto make sure that\u2019s the story that\u2019s heard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She referenced the riots that swept metropolitan areas across the country the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. died, noting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed just months later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am just tired of you guys not putting the correct narrative out there,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t care if the whole city burned down. We need justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gantt later attempted to soften her remarks, saying that \u201cof course\u201d she does not want people to set the city on fire, but she does want people to understand that when it comes to&nbsp;\u201csustainable change,&nbsp;sometimes we have to do whatever it takes to get it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A reporter asked Rivera specifically about the absence of Gantt\u2019s organization over this violence. The Rochester leader said that is his question, too. \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you here?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera also notably called for more police action to secure the city, asking officers to get out of their vehicles for more foot patrol, a request that flies in the face of BLM demands.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cashing-in-blm-co-founder-goes-on-real-estate-buying-binge-snagging-four-homes-totaling-millions-of-dollars-report\">Cashing In: BLM Co-Founder Goes On \u2018Real-Estate Buying Binge,\u2019 Snagging Four Homes Totalling Millions Of Dollars:&nbsp;Report<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Rochester, New York, stepped up last week to draw attention to the massive spike in violence and homicide in the area, blasting left-wing Black Lives Matter activists for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312028,"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\/04\/fb_image-1465.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Rochester Leaders Blast BLM Activists As Murder Spikes: Where Are The Protests When We Kill Ourselves?\u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1465.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Rochester Leaders Blast BLM Activists As Murder Spikes: Where Are The Protests When We Kill Ourselves?\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413862","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=413862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}