PERSON: Peggy Hubbard

Peggy Hubbard believes that Black Lives Matter protesters need to protest the loss of black life by black people before addressing police brutality. Peggy Hubbard, an Illinois mother, has a message for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and she took to Facebook to voice her concerns.

In a video posted to her Facebook page, Hubbard said she believes that the outrage over the Aug. 19 St. Louis police shooting of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, whom she calls a “thug,” was misdirected. She compares the community’s concern over Ball-Bey’s shooting with the lack of outrage about the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden Aug. 18. Jamyla was shot in the chest while she sat inside her Ferguson, Mo., home finishing her homework. Jamyla was killed by a stray bullet believed to have been fired during a drive-by shooting.