Gary Johnson Supports Black Lives Matter

Gary Johnson supports Black Lives Matter.

Gary Johnson Supports Black Lives Matter

Election time is just around the corner, and a lot of people are looking to show their distaste for the two major presidential candidates by voting for third-party candidate, Gary Johnson. Before you jump to team Gary Johnson, be aware that he supports Black Lives Matter and apparently thinks that police are racist.

After announcing his support for Black Lives Matter, Johnson went on to defend his support by citing statistics of black men getting disproportionally shot and arrested. Like just about everybody else who cites these statistics it completely ignores the reasons that police shoot people (threatening their lives) and arrest people (committing crime.) It’s somehow the fault of police officers that a disproportionate amount of black men are entering a life of crime.

It may be hard to believe that a libertarian candidate can go around supporting a marxist political movement like Black Lives Matter, which is, you know, basically the opposite of libertarianism. However, Johnson doesn’t appear to see any contradiction there.

It’s little surprise that Gary Johnson and Bill Weld both happen to be big fans of the most anti-police candidate ever, Hillary Clinton:

And then there was the time that Johnson completely lost it over the use of the term “illegal immigrant”:

Do you think that Gary Johnson would have more support if he didn’t cater to the Black Lives Matter crowd? Let us know what you think in the comments below or on our Facebook page.