Lex Scott leads protestors along Center Street in Provo July, 2020
Black Lives Matter Utah Seeks Meaningful Police Reform National and state changes are needed By Amiee Maxwell
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ex Scott, the founder of Black Lives
Lives Matter movement in the first place.
Matter Utah, is sick of protesting. She
The only way we can get it to end is to pass
would prefer that we didn’t need a Black Lives Matter movement at all, but she isn’t going to quit until she sees real change. “We shouldn’t even have to have a Black
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real police reform in the nation,” said Scott. After watching a video of Eric Garner being choked to death by a New York City Police Department officer in 2014, Scott
