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HOUSEKEEPING SUPPLIES: $9.8 million

LAUNDRY AND CLEANING SUPPLIES: $2.3 million

SOAPS AND DETERGENTS: $1.2 million

OTHER LAUNDRY CLEANING PRODUCTS: $1 million

OTHER HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS: $5.5 million

CLEANSING AND TOILET TISSUE, PAPER TOWELS AND NAPKINS $1.9 million

MISCELLANEOUS HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS: $2.4 million

TRUCKS participating in a back-the-blue rally stopped at Friendship West Baptist Church, a Black-led congregation, on a Sunday afternoon recently. It did not go well. The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church, went live on Facebook to say, “Blue lives matter, or whatever you’re talking about? Let me just say this right now: At this point, if you ain’t saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ you might as well have a klan rally.” Organizers say they received permission to stop at Friendship West, however Haynes said he did not approve the stop. Haynes later added, “Now is the time to divest from policing systems and invest communities. You want your lives to matter, blue? Then that’s what you do. You invest in our community instead of trying to intimidate our community. ’Cause we ain’t the ones to be intimidated.”

Search Friendship West at oakcliff.advocatemag.com to read more.