Once you make an argument legitimizing looting, why should the looting end with ransacking grocery stores?
Let’s flash back to the golden age of BLM with half the country on fire.
Then thousands of protesters marched Tuesday in a vast stream, many clad in black and carrying signs, wending their way to Franklin Park in a rally and vigil decrying police brutality against black people.
The event at Franklin Park, organized by the groups Violence in Boston Inc. and Black Lives Matter, came on the seventh day of demonstrations nationwide after the killing of Floyd. A massive protest Sunday in Boston turned ugly at night, with looting and arrests, and clashes between police and protesters.
“The message that we’re trying to convey is ‘Not one more,’ ” death or assault, said Monica Cannon-Grant of Violence in Boston, in an interview with WBUR’s Radio Boston ahead of the gathering. “Protesting is the voice of the unheard.”
Later, addressing the crowd, she exhorted white people to use their bodies to protect black people if necessary. The event would remain peaceful, though the vibe would shift somewhat by nightfall.
What a ‘vibe shift’. Her Twitter account name seemed to be ‘ProRockThrower’.
So let’s check in and see how things are going.
A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.
The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.
Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.
But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.
I don’t like criminals, but really by diverting money from BLM to doing her nails, Monica was saving lives.
“Fraud is the real voice of the unheard.”
