Barr: Black Lives Matter Movement ‘Not Interested in Black Lives, They’re Interested in Props’

Barr: Black Lives Matter Movement ‘Not Interested in Black Lives, They’re Interested in Props’
A demonstrator holds a card that reads "Black Lives Matter," outside of the Glynn County courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., on June 4, 2020. Sean Rayford/Getty Images
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Attorney General William Barr recently leveled criticism at the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that its activists are not actually interested in the lives of African Americans but instead are interested in pushing a broader political agenda.

Barr made the comments during a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on Wednesday, where he said that while the concept that black lives matter is valid, the activists in the movement are merely using the instances of African Americans killed by law enforcement as “props.”