The Huffington Post
Before the shooting in Dallas that took the lives of five police officers and the one in Baton Rouge that resulted in the deaths of three more, Black Lives Matter had begun to gain traction.
Among other things, the movement contributed to the introduction of body camerasfor the police in some jurisdictions, and led to the resignation of the University of Missouri’s president over racial bias.
In the aftermath of the death of Philando Castile at the hands of cops in Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton attributed the death to institutional racism. The BLM movement was at least partially responsible for informing the governor’s thinking on these matters.