Black Lives Matter (BLM) has been affected by "outliers", often being warped into a hate group

BLM started out as a fairly admirable cause, addressing racial issues in modern times. However, over time, what the group describes as "extremist outliers" have severely warped the group's direction. The movement, while still largely peaceful, had grown hostile on many fronts on many occasions. Outliers use the platform to rile up social unrest and promote hostile attitudes towards law enforcement, along with whites in some cases. Instances of hostility include harassment of students in university libraries, rioting following any police-involved shooting, targeting of police officers, sometimes targeting of non-blacks, etc. While I realize this is not necessarily the majority of the group, the group nonetheless takes no actions against these outliers, in fact, it rarely even makes any effort to distance itself from these individuals. While the movement might be somewhat decentralized, there are still major figures, major media accounts, and they rarely make an effort to distance these extremists. As a result, there are people encouraging violence, social unrest, racial violence, racial profiling, rioting, and etc. via this large platform, and the group garners attention for it, as does the extremist. Outliers have used the platform in police standoffs where they've broken the law and barricaded themselves, they've threatened violence, and carried through on threats at times, and they've harassed non-blacks on multiple occasions. I recognize the potential power for good for the group, but it has only become more and more misguided and tense. The so-called "outliers" have taken advantage of this, and hijacked the platform, in a sense. My biggest issue is that the group seems to fall to the same sin that most of society does, but this group brings to destructive, disruptive results: The group fails to fact-check allegations and apply critical thinking before throwing their weight behind an allegation or cause. The first whisper of a police-involved shooting raises interest, and the first uninformed, false allegation of racial motivation, rather than danger motivation stirs the group into a frenzy against police. Allegations are made by one individual, and nearly nobody thinks to actually fact-check the claims made. Nobody thinks to actually check if the alleged party involved was even there, nobody thinks to check to see if a weapon was involved, instead, everyone jumps on the racism bandwagon. People cry out against a police-involved shooting, without applying the common sense and critical thinking that since the suspect shot was pointing a weapon at an officer, or creating a potential deadly situation, that the officer acted out of necessity. Instead, they accuse involved parties of racism, and go into a frenzy In my view, if you want the stereotyping and profiling to end, MAKE SURE YOU DON'T CONTRIBUTE FURTHER TO THAT STEREOTYPE! If you want people to stop viewing you as a liar, you stop lying. The same rings true for all things, admittedly on a more complex level. If you want to stop being stereotyped as a criminal, don't act like one, dress like one, talk like one, hang around with one, or take part in criminal culture. If you want to stop being stereotyped as uneducated and ignorant, stop acting like you have a fear of education, pay attention in classes, do your work, speak intelligently and intelligibly. If one wants change, they have to work for it. You can't demand change, and expect it to happen if you do no work, you have work for it. If a group truly wants to address racial tension here and now, it needs to focus on non-violent, productive methods. Rioting does nothing but further stereotypes, harassing non-whites only portrays the group as racist, hostile attitudes towards law enforcement only furthers stereotypes and increases the unwillingness of law enforcement to change and work with the group.