A professor at the University of Southern California is facing backlash for refusing to remove the pro-police Blue Lives Matter flag outside his office insisting that the message black lives are disproportionately at risk of police violence is a 'lie.'
James Moore, professor of engineering and policy, has ignored repeated calls to take the flag down from students and administrators who he says live in a 'progressive bubble.'
Moore spoke with Fox & Friends on Friday to defend his stance. 'I feel a responsibility right now. I wanted to communicate to progressively-oriented students that there's a competing point of view,' he said.
'They live in something of a progressive bubble on a college campus… I wanted to communicate to conservative students, of which there are many, that in fact they're entitled to their voice, that the messages they hear are really not representative of society at large.'
James Moore, professor of engineering and policy at the University of Southern California, refuses to remove his Blue Lives Matter flag claiming that the message that black people are disproportionately impacted by police violence is a 'lie'
Moore hung this Blue Lives Matter flag on his door at the beginning of the semester to remind students on the campus that they are living in a 'progressive bubble' and that other opinions exist out in the world
While intended to show support for law enforcement, the Blue Lives Matter flag has come to represent opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement. Several of these flags were seen flying at the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
He says he hung the flag at the beginning of the semester to contradict the Black Lives Matter message that black lives are at risk of police violence.
'I think it's a lie,' he said. 'Black lives benefit rather strongly, disproportionately from the activities of police. We can't diminish police violence by diminishing policing. That's ridiculous. Black lives are at greatest risk from reduced police service.'
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