#BLM Activist Likens Cops to Cancer: I’d Never Yell ‘Colon Cancer Matters!’ at Breast Cancer Rally

Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson is likening cops to cancer. 

McKesson, who was recently arrested while protesting in Baton Rouge, is known as perhaps the most prominent voices among the Black Lives Matter movement.

He appeared this morning on CNN's "New Day." Here's a rush transcript:

CUOMO: “What do you — what is your response to the idea that the hashtag shouldn’t be black lives matter, it should be all lives matter?”
MCKESSON: “Yeah, you know, it’s an interesting thing where people are frustrated that black people are focusing on the issues that black people face. I would never go to a breast cancer rally and yell out colon cancer matters. We know the way blackness functions in this country is unique and we have to deal with that trauma in a different way. We also know in focusing on black people, that other people will also benefit when we get to equity and justice. So I think of all lives matter as a distraction technique that has probably been one of the most through line distraction techniques of the moment, but it doesn’t get us away from talking about the key issues at happened, which is police violence, and a world we want to live in, which is a world where police don’t kill people.”