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one_voice

(20,043 posts) Sun Jul 10, 2016, 05:24 PM Jul 2016

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It is a remarkable picture. A single woman stands in the roadway, feet firmly planted. She poses no obvious threat. She is there to protest the excessive force which Baton Rouge police allegedly deploy against the city’s black citizens. She stands in front of police headquarters, on Saturday. And she is being hauled away by officers who look better prepared for a war than a peaceful protest.

There are images that are impossible to forget, searing themselves into our collective consciousness. One man staring down a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square. A high school student attacked by police dogs in Birmingham, Alabama. This is such a photo.

Once seen, it cannot be unseen.

The Baton Rouge police department lists the virtues it seeks to instill in its officers. Protection. Obligation. Leadership. Integrity. Courage. Excellence. I wonder what these officers thought about as they hauled her away.

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/a-single-photo-that-captures-race-and-policing-in-america/490664/?utm_source=atlfb

powerful!!!!

UPDATE;

As some demonstrators moved and others yelled at officers, one woman stood silently on the roadway and resolutely refused to budge.

“I photographed someone arguing with an officer and then I looked over my shoulder and saw her there and she had every intention of not moving,” he said. “She just stood there and made her stand. I was just happy to be able to capture something like that.”

The woman was quickly detained, Bachman said, but when he checked his camera he knew had captured a remarkable photo of her defiant act of peaceful civil disobedience.

“She was there, she wasn’t resisting, and she had every intention of not moving.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/baton-rouge-blm-photo?utm_term=.tvb72alq4#.jsr56gZwx

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This photo: UPDATED WITH MORE INFO (Original Post) one_voice Jul 2016 OP

Please Lord forgive them for they OldHippieChick Jul 2016 #1

Please lord forgive them despite them knowing what they do. ret5hd Jul 2016 #2

Sorry no, you did not OldHippieChick Jul 2016 #5

I think they do. beveeheart Jul 2016 #4

You miss my point OldHippieChick Jul 2016 #6

I get your point Xipe Totec Jul 2016 #18

Me hometown is now a worldwide embarrassment. KeepItReal Jul 2016 #3

What the hell are the cops doing? Dancing? Rex Jul 2016 #7

The photo gives me that goosey-bumpy thing. Re-read all the virtues the cops are to reflect. Hoppy Jul 2016 #8

The more things change, the more they stay the same.... CurtEastPoint Jul 2016 #9

Actually, DC, 1967, during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's march to Brickbat Jul 2016 #11

Oops... CurtEastPoint Jul 2016 #15

This one really gives me the shivers. Stonepounder Jul 2016 #17

That's what I thought of as well LakeArenal Jul 2016 #25

Yes, powerful SCantiGOP Jul 2016 #10

The American equivalent to Tienanmen Square matt819 Jul 2016 #12

"It wasn’t very violent. OxQQme Jul 2016 #13

So where they there to shake her hand? tia uponit7771 Jul 2016 #14

according to buzzfeed.com she is still in jail on Sunday afternoon irisblue Jul 2016 #19

Hope the storm troopers didn't harm her. nt Lucky Luciano Jul 2016 #16

. one_voice Jul 2016 #20

Very powerful photo... Spazito Jul 2016 #21

She Should Have a Torch Held High in Her Right Hand Leith Jul 2016 #22

Do the guys in the military wear that much gear? CrispyQ Jul 2016 #23

I shall not be moved Javaman Jul 2016 #24

As you say ... lpbk2713 Jul 2016 #26

Beauty The Jungle 1 Jul 2016 #27

But just who is she? cadaverdog Jul 2016 #28

True Courage zz-la Jul 2016 #29

No one seems to see it as I do: The cops just didn't think, they obeyed orders. This created an downeastdaniel Jul 2016 #30

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1. Please Lord forgive them for they