Remembering Baton Rouge 2016

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'She was making her stand': image of Baton Rouge protester an instant classic

As tens of thousands of people protest with renewed vigor following the police shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling and react to the five Dallas police officers that were killed by a sniper, one photograph has emerged from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a symbol of the civil unrest that has spread across the nation.

The image, taken by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters, shows a woman, who has been identified as Iesha L Evans, standing in a long dress in the face of a line of Louisiana state troopers dressed in riot gear outside of police headquarters. Evans looks calm and poised and almost seems to repel the two officers who are charging towards her.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/11/baton-rouge-protester-photo-iesha-evans

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1. Courage and dignity.

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2. Exactly, Brer.