A St. Paul, Minnesota, Black Lives Matter chapter has reluctantly aligned itself with a rally for a white woman in South Minneapolis who was shot dead by a Muslim cop after she called 911 to report an assault in the alleyway near her home.

The leader of the BLM chapter, Chauntyll Allen, 43, traveled to Justine Damond’s memorial site but had reservations in doing so.

“Some white people don’t feel the tragedy until one of them is murdered,” Allen said to Mic. 

Allen said so far she has seen mostly white residents speaking out against police brutality and asking for police reform but couldn’t help but note that these same white people are nowhere to be found when BLM is marching for black people shot by cops.

However, the black activist has committed to attend a rally for Damond on Friday, but she doesn’t want anyone getting the wrong idea.

“It’s that time where that 99% of people need to get together and decide that lives need to matter,” Allen said. “I’m not saying ‘All Lives Matter.’ I’m saying, ‘lives matter.’”

BLM activists fear joining ranks with white victims of police violence could “whitewash” their call for police reform and could threaten the movement’s agenda to address what it sees as institutional racism against blacks in police departments nationwide. But in this particular case, the cop is a “person of color” and his Somali heritage is raising suspicions for some that perhaps this shooting wasn’t an accident and that gives BLM an unlikely ally in the cop who pulled the trigger. 

At least Mic acknowledged in its report the fact that more whites are killed every year by police than minorities, but not without the inevitable “disproportionate” argument based on percentage of population, as if that makes blacks more of a target.

In the case of the Damond shooting, very few details have emerged as to why the officer, Mohamed Noor, shot from the passenger side of the patrol car, across his partner’s body in the driver’s seat, and killed Damond who approached the cruiser in her pajamas. Investigators were told Noor was “startled by a loud sound” before Damond walked up but he refuses to say anything further about the incident. Both officers did not have their bodycameras on even though they were responding to a 911 call.