One of the most common, ongoing struggles we face in our sanctification as believers is the area of anger. And one of the most common ways we mismanage our anger is by failing to distinguish between righteous and sinful anger, and response.
Overall, police have killed at least 67 people since Kaepernickâs protest began, according to The Guardianâs database. Roughly 22 percent of the victims have been black. Police have killed more than 780 people so far in 2016, according to The Guardianâs numbers. At least 193 of those people â or about 25 percent â were black.
The activists chose the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre for its symbolic value. Both sides were armed and shooting was frequent. An FBI agent was paralyzed from a gunshot wound early during the occupation, and later died from complications; a Cherokee and an Oglala Lakota were killed by shootings in April 1973.