Black Lives Matter
- Submitted by: James Dornan, Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party.
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2020
- Motion reference: S5M-21893
That the Parliament condemns in the strongest possible terms what it sees as President Trump's hateful, cavalier and alarmingly racist comments about the protesters who have taken to the streets after the reported murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 25 May 2020; believes that George Floyd's death has once again demonstrated disturbing levels of police brutality towards the African American community and has acted as a catalyst for protests demanding justice both across the US and the wider world; considers that African Americans continue to live in a climate of potential violence at the hands of US law enforcement personnel, with recent studies suggesting that around 100 African American men per 100,000 are at risk of being killed by the police, more than double the risk relative to their white counterparts, and strongly believes that Black Lives Matter.
Supported by:
Clare Adamson, Tom Arthur, Colin Beattie, Neil Bibby, Willie Coffey, Bruce Crawford, Bob Doris, Annabelle Ewing, Neil Findlay, John Finnie, Iain Gray, Emma Harper, Patrick Harvie, Alison Johnstone, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Gordon MacDonald, Fulton MacGregor, Rona Mackay, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Stuart McMillan, Pauline McNeill, Gil Paterson, Stewart Stevenson, David Torrance, Maureen Watt, Sandra White, Andy Wightman