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What about black-on-black crime?

Somebody clue me in. While Black Lives Matter groups are specifically protesting white cops’ interactions with black civilians who may or may not feel that laws apply to them (traffic, domestic violence, drugs, weapons, etc.).

But why are none of these groups protesting black-on-black violence, gang or otherwise, in the neighborhoods where it occurs? Case in point: The Bee published that on the night of the Dallas ambush shooting, three people were injured by a 15-bullet ambush in southwest Fresno, where there are many people, families and neighbors of color. Do those lives not matter?

Scott Reisdorfer, Fresno

This story was originally published July 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM with the headline "What about black-on-black crime?."

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