Viral photo shows line of white people between police, black protesters at Thursday rally
Source: Courier Journal
A photo from Thursday night's protest in downtown Louisville appears to show a line of white women, arms locked, standing between Louisville Metro Police officers and black protesters.
It quickly went viral, shared on social media by organizations like the Kentucky National Organization for Women, where it was shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook.
"This is a line of white people forming a barrier between Black protesters and the police. This is love. This is what you do with your privilege," the post states.
Tim Druck, a Louisville photographer, captured the moment at the rally, where people called for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her apartment in March by Louisville police during a no-knock warrant.
Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/29/breonna-taylor-photo-white-women-between-police-black-protesters/5286416002/
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babylonsister
(171,107 posts)Volaris
(10,278 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)Ohiogal
(32,161 posts)I could cry
fierywoman
(7,704 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Bayard
(22,219 posts)Makes this native proud.
dware
(12,492 posts)The second woman, with the pink and orange bandana just like my youngest daughter, who does live in Louisville.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it is her, she's a liberal through and through.
I'll give her a call tomorrow and see if it was her.
I am so proud of her.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)mopinko
(70,318 posts)that aint no apparition i see.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,503 posts)wiggs
(7,820 posts)trickyguy
(769 posts)I see a white man wearing a red mask. If so, I'm proud of you too.
weissmam
(905 posts)and they are wearing masks , even cooler
Leith
(7,814 posts)It would be an honor, but sad that it has to be done.
sandensea
(21,711 posts)Not the paranoid, spastic mess that so often parades as the 'real' America ever since the Tea Party.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)For those of a cynical frame of mind, this is NOT about white women being "heroes". This is about people taking responsibility. This is about human beings--who literally do not "have skin in the game"-- realizing that injustice to anyone is injustice to everyone.
This is a desperately needed reminder that not all people are selfish and narrow-minded and unable to conceive of the sorrows of others who are not exactly like them.
As sandensea has just said: THIS is America.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)So proud of these women!
agalisgv
(149 posts)niyad
(113,798 posts)MontanaMama
(23,366 posts)and, there are some men in this line of defense/offense too. So, I thank them too.
brer cat
(24,643 posts)K&R
Midnight Writer
(21,843 posts)BComplex
(8,082 posts)Warriors all!
dlk
(11,598 posts)And they go to the polls in November
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)dhill926
(16,383 posts)wnylib
(21,756 posts)a Neil Diamond song.
"Kentucky woman, she shines with her own kind of light."
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)Ligyron
(7,645 posts)It was just women of all colors though from what I could see.
Strategy of shaming the cops to hit a woman and hoping they'd be like less likely to?
They did anyway of course.
democrank
(11,112 posts)Beautiful!