Black Lives Matter Utah Founder Lists What They Have Done

  If you would want to know what Black Lives Matter Utah is all about, and what they do, a recent mass email from founder Lex Scott would be worthy to read. She said that since the inception of the organization, they have:

-- We have successfully gotten the majority of candidates running for Salt Lake Office to put down in writing; how they plan to handle police accountability and transparency if elected. We also met with the majority of candidates to discuss black lives matter and black community.

-- We rented out 2 movie theaters for the Black Panther Premier and had the time of our lives.

-- We rented out a theater for a Wrinkle in Time and had the time of our lives.

-- We rented out a theater for Spiderverse and had the time of our lives.

-- We have registered thousands of inmates to vote including inmates in Oxbow jail, Salt Lake Metro Jail, and this year we are doing Davis County Jail.

-- We had Oscar Winning Ruth Carter speak and inspire a large crowd of members.

-- We served 300 meals to the homeless on Thanksgiving.

-- We gave groceries and presents to the homeless during Christmas.

-- We are helping refugees with groceries during the Pandemic.

-- We have held Black Lives Matter Summer camp for kids Two years in a row.

-- We have spoken at more than 20 Utah Schools about black lives matter, and police accountability and transparency.

-- We were invited to speak at the NYU Law School Policing project regarding our work with police accountability and Transparency.

-- We were invited to Quantico and FBI Headquarters to represent Black Lives Matter due to our work with police accountability and transparency.

-- We along with C.A.G were able to influence Salt Lake Police department to remove over 70 lethal shotguns from police patrol cars and replace them with less than lethal weapons. 

-- We along with UAPB and CAG were able to change the body came policy in Salt Lake City so that all body cam footage must be released within 10 days of every officer involved shooting unedited with sound.

-- We did a Christmas card drive for youth who are suicidal and are currently in a mental health facility.

-- We did a suicide prevention training after we lost one of our chapter leaders Trevor Mortimer.

-- We did a financial education training to educate members on credit, collections, and how to buy a house.

-- We have done two white ally trainings. We need to do more. Kathy Abarca was amazing.

-- We protested Ben Shapiro.

-- We protested Tomi Lahren.

-- We have protested ICE and Homeland Security three times.

-- We held a Transracial adoption panel to educate Utahns about the struggles, experiences, and successes of transracial adoption.

-- We held a panel regarding growing up black in Utah.

-- We got Harmons Grocery Chain to put black hair products in their stores.

-- We held two black lives matter comedy shows.

-- We donated 10 computers to East High School.

-- We have spoken at almost every college in Utah. WSU, USU, UofU, BYU, SUU, SLCC, Westminster. We are only missing Snow College.

-- We have held several homeless outreach events.

-- We have performed too many cop watches to count.

-- We held a black brunch.

-- We have held too many protests to count.

-- We have purchased a school bus and are turning it into a black history museum.

-- We had Al Woolem speak to members.

-- We held a Black Excellence Party.

-- We have created a black library.

-- And my favorite. We have helped a ton of black children who were being bullied.

-- We along with the CAG have met with Utah police regarding police reform every two weeks for three years straight.

-- We marched in the Pride Parade twice.

-- We had a booth at LGBTQ Prom.

-- We launched a police reform petition that has more than one million signatures.

-- We helped the creators of the app called Secyre to perfect their app that works as an alternative to calling the police.

-- We have met with several elected representatives regarding new police reform bills. We believe that the majority of these bills will pass in January.

-- We have have canvassed for and against political candidates running for office.

 Our work has been covered by CNN, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair magazine, Yes Magazine, Parenting Magazine, Fox News, MSNBC, Yahoo News, BRUT media, Reuters, and many more publications.

 I know that I am forgetting something. We do a lot here. We are a team. We love black people. Help us do more.