Black Lives Matter Organizer: If US ‘Doesn’t Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System’

Hawk Newsome, right, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, at a rally in New York on May 15, 2020. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

The chairperson of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter said activists will “burn down” the current system in the United States if they’re not given what they want.

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right?” Hawk Newsome said.