Jan. 6 In LA: One Year Later And Memories Of An Extremist Attack Spark Nightmares

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Frank Stoltze
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I spoke with Berlinda Nibo, the Black woman attacked by far right extremists outside LA City Hall on Jan. 6. Heartbreaking. She's hardly been able to leave her home. LAPD has yet to arrest her attackers, even tho she pointed them out to officers that day
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Jan. 6 In LA: One Year Later And Memories Of An Extremist Attack Spark Nightmares
The assault of Berlinda Nibo in L.A. last Jan. 6 went viral. An expert says far-right extremists have expanded their activities to political battles over vaccines, gender and race.
laist.com
4:49 PM · Jan 6, 2022

https://laist.com/news/jan-6-in-la-one-year-later-memories-of-an-extremist-attack-spark-nightmares-insurrection-berlinda-nibo

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Nibo and a friend were on their way to lunch as they passed by. Nibo videotaped the crowd while urging them to put on their masks. Soon people surrounded her.

“That’s when a group of people started chanting 'white lives matter' at me,” said Nibo, who is from Nigeria. The confrontation escalated quickly.

She said they called her the N-word and punched her. Video shows someone spraying a chemical in her eyes, and a woman ripping off her wig and calling it “the first scalping of the new civil war.”

Images of the attack and Nibo’s face quickly spread on social media. She changed her residence within a week and doesn’t disclose where she lives now, nor where she works.

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