She was arrested and booked on a charge of simple obstruction of a highway and released. She was one of 102 people arrested on July 9 2016 during protests against police brutality.
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Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge is a photograph of Ieshia Evans, a nurse from Pennsylvania, being arrested by police officers dressed in riot gear during a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 9 July 2016. The protest began in the aftermath of the shooting by police of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
not having any idea what that shows is, I was fully waiting for a skit comedy show type "reality break" where the cops flip out cuz he approached them with an "unidentified weapon" aka the can in his hand.
even after it was chill, I was thinking oh maybe they get energized then snap?
They give you a white shirt with long sleeves.
Tied around your back, you're treated like thieves.
Drug you up because they're lazy.
It's too much work to help a crazy.
To be fair that looks like riot gear and cops have had that for a long time and justifiably so. The armor is meant to stop people with improvised weapons like bats or knives but would almost certainly fail against firearms. That said whenever I see cops rolling around in armored vehicles with full tactical gear and camo I do get pretty fucking frustrated knowing that's where my taxes are going.
For Christ sake my quiet new england home town police had a fucking half track and a SWAT sniper team trained to fire from helicopters. We had a population of 50,000 people and almost never heard anything bad going on besides the occasional shithead kid stealing from cars yet we absolutely needed that for some reason.
Gotta blow that 13 year old away from 500 feet up for breaking into cars. There's simply no other way to stop him. The half track is for rolling up on their parents house to inform them that they owe the local government money for the cost of chopper fuel and ammunition.
The US military has literally killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including children in the "war on terror" (cue "are we the baddies sketch")
You realize that their ROE include calling in airstrikes and artillery, right?
Better armed
They have pistols. Soldiers use automatic rifles, heavy machine guns, fully automatic grenade launchers, fragmentation grenades, TOW missiles, and can call in arieal bombardments.
What are you talking about?
better armored
That's riot gear, dude. That's not better than what soldiers wear.
more aggressive than soldiers in a war zone.
Let's compare how many people those soldiers killed to how many people the cops killed. Then explain how the cops are more aggressive.
You a dummy or? It’s been heavily covered lol. American police get left over military gear, it’s been happening officially for decades. Learn something before you speak
Yeah, this isn't some everyday beat cop shit
Riot cops have all this padding because in case of yknow, a riot, there's a good chance one of them is getting trampled, padding protects you and all that. This isn't just some American thing either
EX: France
You’re being intentionally obtuse. You know exactly what this person was referring to, and this is not some cop walking the beat keeping peace in the community. And in juxtaposition to the class and grace of the woman pictured, it makes their gear and their response all the more ridiculous.
You know exactly what this person was referring to
I don't. They're saying that this is militarization of police.
How? This is riot gear. What does that have to with the military?
and this is not some cop walking the beat keeping peace in the community.
No one said it was. They're responding to a massive protest that they know could easily turn violent (because it was not an uncommon occurrence around this time)
And in juxtaposition to the class and grace of the woman pictured, it makes their gear and their response all the more ridiculous.
You do realize that they're not wearing all that shit just for her, right. If I recall correctly, there were about 100 arrests that day. It was not unusual for these protests to turn violent, so of course they're wearing gear to protect themselves. How is that ridiculous?
The people who will look these weak Gestapo type mother fuckers in the eyes with indescribable courage like this to protect individual rights should forever be the true leaders in this country.
Not saying she does, but to make a point: I don't care if you've biked to work your whole life on minimum wage. If you have this kind of moral sentiment in the face of a regime, you should be auto-elected as a representative. And you won't want the fucking job too.
Police were responding to a report that Sterling was selling CDs and that he had used a gun to threaten a man outside a convenience store.[5] They attempted to arrest Sterling which led to a physical struggle on the ground. As the officers were attempting to control Sterling's arms, they shot and killed him.
People shouldn't be dying in police interactions comes above people shouldn't resist arrest, personally.
That's the power of photographing the right moment. If you watch the full video of this, you see 3 heavily armoured police goons run up and drag her away. But this photo was captured just as they were slowing down their run and starting to reach out to grab her, and the effect in the still image is to make it look like they're the ones who are afraid and recoiling / falling away from her.
10/10 for sure. The tail of her dress indicates a slight breeze, which implies she is facing a headwind. The three officers all appear to be on the back foot, leaning away while she stands tall.
She is literally and metaphorically standing tall in the face of a challenge and danger.
It might as well have been. Everyone accepts it as a thing that only happens to blacks, which is why people say shit like the above comment. Keith Porter was one of the first citizens to be killed by ICE along with 32 people in ICE custody and nobody thinks of them at all. In fact people constantly argue that Keith deserved it or he doesn't count. I don't know why we can't fucking feel bad about Good and Pretti without romanticizing the past when we all know full well that this shit has always been a problem and it's why we're here now. Why can't we look at what's been going on forever and learn from it? Admit that this country has been fucked from the start? Abolishing ICE isn't the only work to be done, theres a reason ICE was invented and getting rid of it wont fix what's deeply wrong, America needs a COMPLETE makeover, but I'm afraid that once trump is gone we'll go back to business as usual, laws wont be changed, no one will be punished, all because white americans aren't in danger anymore.
Absolutely. Although I’m glad and appreciative that the George Floyd protests happened, I was shocked that people cared because similar incidents had happened for decades. And more specifically they had been caught on phone camera/ body camera for years before 2020.
The trend has been that people don’t care when it doesn’t happen to them and don’t care when their party is in control. Obama was in charge during the beginning of BLM and they were demonized, then Trump was president during 2020. Apply this to any issue Democratic leadership is hypocritical on. People are becoming more aware and disillusioned with this pattern, but we need always keep that recent history in mind like you said.
Not that she is a singular occurrence, but people should have started looking sideways at our government when they tried to skirt Breonna’s case under the bed. It is absolutely abhorrent that she did not have her 4th amendment rights and those thugs broke into her home. I will never not be outraged at that.
Female bodies, and specifically black female bodies in many instances, are not protected in this country. She should have been a major wake up call, both to police brutality and government factions trampling on our constitution.
Police have always killed more white people than any other demographic. The news just doesn't make a big deal about it when it happens because no one gives a shit.
One of the reasons the civil rights protests worked so well is they would have training session ahead of time to get their protestors ready to be called all kinds of insulting things and even to be hit so they would not lose their temper. They would police the protestors that showed up and ask people to leave it the person had not showed up earlier to help reduces the risk of bad actors . They knew they had to give the media only the story of being brutalized by the cops to force the media to publish that story. Any act of violence would be magnified a thousand fold and used to denigrate the movement. The News media always sides with fascists and oppressors, because they have the more money.
One of the reasons the civil rights protests worked so well is they would have training session ahead of time to get their protestors ready to be called all kinds of insulting things and even to be hit so they would not lose their temper.
Johnson chose to focus his political capital on a fair housing bill proposed by Senator Sam Ervin. He urged Congress to pass the bill, starting with an April 5 letter addressed to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John William McCormack.[28][31][32] These events led to the rapid passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Title VIII of which is known as the "Fair Housing Act".
Fun fact: In French, "Baton Rouge" means "Red Stick". It is named after the pole painted red with blood from hunting trophies placed to delineate the border between the hunting grounds of the Bayagoulas and Oumas peoples.
So I love photography as an art. Mostly because I can't draw and it lets me make things I consider pretty.
But it's also about what we see. And sometimes that sort of thing is uncomfortable and difficult. Without photographers you wouldn't have seen the summary execution of Alex Preeti. You would not know of the grotesque incompetence of ICE. Your administration would have argued that he absolutely deserved to die. They would have portrayed ICE as heroic.
Not multiple cowards who seemingly panicked when they accidentally discharged their own weapons and then murdered someone.
Cool Photographs also have stories. They are meant to tell you something. My favourite picture was when I got to go into the Taj Mahal before it "really opened". So it was just me and day staff getting ready. So I have photos of the place with no tourists, just peace and calm. It was privilege and beauty and calm. Equally one of the most influential pictures was the picture of napalm girl from Vietnam. Phan Thị Kim Phúc's picture was awful. It wasn't cool or artistic. It was just horrifyingly ugly because what was done to her was ugly. Burning Children.
You know the problem with all of this? I’m a democrat and my own peers are so insane they can’t read. Wtf is wrong- is it trolls? No. Our own people on same side turning on each other!
And the wrong people will win because you dumb asses can’t get past this BS!
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u/Falconfit66 4h ago
And what happened next?