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This isn't Baghdad. It's #BatonRouge. What militarized police looks like.: image via Khaled Bey @KhaledBeydoun, 10 July 2016
A man protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department as clashes between police and demonstrators intensified on Sunday: photo by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters, 10 July 2016
Police order peaceful demonstrators in Baton Rouge to disperse: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 10 July 2016
-- Jonathan Bachman, freelance photographer, interviewed by The Atlantic, 10 June 2016
Just spoke to one of her best friends. She's still in jail after this arrest in Baton Rouge. A mother to a 5 y/o son. [photo Jonathan Bachman/Reuters]: image via Shaun King @ShaunKing, 10 July 2016
He would declare and could himself believe
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
If I were one of those cops I would TOTALLY ask that lovely lady for a dance... but that's just me. #BatonRouge: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
Approximately 500 people had gathered at France and East in downtown Baton Rouge after first coming together at a nearby Methodist church to protest the police killing of Alton Sterling. Meeting the protesters were about 100 officers in riot gear. A homeowner gave the protesters safe refuge on her front lawn so they would not be arrested for being in the street.
“No justice, no peace!” they yelled.
After 90 minutes of peaceful assembly, police charged the crowd for no clear reason. Protesters scattered, many running down a side street. Those protesters were then arrested for obstruction of a highway.
Several protesters threw water bottles and rocks at cops as they retreated.
The homeowner told CBS News she was "stunned" by police behavior.
Police confront protestors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: photo by AP, 10 July 2016
A demonstrator protests the shooting death of Alton Sterling near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 10 July 2016
Louisiana is ranked 26th in per-pupil education spending, but they can afford tanks and assault gear. #BatonRouge: image via Capt. Jake Ballard @kidnoble, 10 July 2016
Man brings mirror to #BlackLivesMatter protest via @choudychouds: image via Calestous Juma @calestous, 10 July 2016
Take a look at the questions raised by the people of Baton Rouge at the #AltonSterling memorial. Thx, @BrotherJesse: Look what we're up against in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: image via Hal Dockins @HalDockins, 9 July 2016
#BREAKING: BRPD says 48 people arrested during evening protest downtown near Government Street: image via WAFB @WAFB, 10 July 2016
After spending the majority of his bday locked up, @Deray is free but we cant stop until everyone is out! #FreeDeray: image via CHERNO BIKO @ChernoBiko, 10 July 2016 Baton Rouge, LA
A Donald Trump henchman. Hmmm...he seems nice. NOT!!!! #BLM #Baton Rouge: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
Louisiana Gov after #AltonSterling shooting: “We have to reevaluate where we are, how we recruit and train officers”: image via BuzzFeed News Verified account @BuzzFeed News, 10 July 2016
Three countries urge caution traveling to U.S. amid protests, violence: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 July 2016
Look what we're up against in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: image via Hal Dockins @HalDockins, 10 July 2016
This isn't Baghdad. It's #BatonRouge. What militarized police looks like.: image via Khaled Bey @KhaledBeydoun, 10 July 2016
A man protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department as clashes between police and demonstrators intensified on Sunday: photo by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters, 10 July 2016
A man protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department as clashes between police and demonstrators intensified.: photo by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters, 10 July 2016
Police were choking a protestor today in #BatonRouge: image via DNC Philly @dncphilly, 10 July 2016
At least a dozen protesters were arrested Sunday in Baton Rouge, following the detainment of more than 100 earlier in the weekend: photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, 10 July 2016
Dozens more arrested in Louisiana after leaders warn against protest violence: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 July 2016
Dozens more arrested in Louisiana after leaders warn against protest violence: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 July 2016
Police order peaceful demonstrators in Baton Rouge to disperse: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 10 July 2016
Baton Rouge PD looks ridiculous. I never wore so much armor in combat. This is their own community. (Photo: Reuters): image via Brandon Friedman @BFriedmanDC, 10 July 2016
A group of demonstrators had formed a blockade -- blocked Airline Highway, which runs in front of Baton Rouge Police headquarters. So law enforcement came out, consisting of several departments within Louisiana … they had come out in riot gear to clear the protestors off to the side of the road. In that attempt, they arrested three to four people as some of the demonstrators confronted the line that the police had created, but for the most part they were able to move everyone off to the side of the road.
I had my attention on people confronting the police on the side of the road … I had turned to look over my right shoulder, I think that I had heard this women say something about she was going to be arrested, and I saw this woman, and she was standing in the first lane in that road.
It happened quickly, but I could tell that she wasn’t going to move, and it seemed like she was making her stand. To me it seemed like: You’re going to have to come and get me. And I just thought it seemed like this was a good place to get in position and make an image, just because she was there in her dress and you have two police officers in full riot gear.
It wasn’t very violent. She didn’t say anything. She didn’t resist...
-- Jonathan Bachman, freelance photographer, interviewed by The Atlantic, 10 June 2016
Just spoke to one of her best friends. She's still in jail after this arrest in Baton Rouge. A mother to a 5 y/o son. [photo Jonathan Bachman/Reuters]: image via Shaun King @ShaunKing, 10 July 2016
Robert Frost: Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.
Admittedly an eloquence so soft
Could only have had an influence on birds
When call or laughter carried it aloft.
Be that as may be, she was in their song.
Moreover her voice upon their voices crossed
Had now persisted in the woods so long
That probably it never would be lost.
Never again would birds' song be the same.
And to do that to birds was why she came.
Robert Frost (1874-1963): Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same, from A Witness Tree, 1942
Hint: Guys! You really don't need to handcuff this lovely and powerful lady to get her phone number. Prolly just ask.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
There are images which capture us and haunt us. #BatonRouge lady has been added to my list of unforgettable images.: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
If I were one of those cops I would TOTALLY ask that lovely lady for a dance... but that's just me. #BatonRouge: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
Other side of the street. Been like this about an hour. Neither side backing down. #AltonSterling: image via Rebekah Allen Verified account @rebekahallaen, 10 July 2016
Baton Rouge Cops Throw Protesters Into Street, Arrest Them for Being There: Zack Kopplin, Daily Beast, 10 July 2016
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Hundreds of people peacefully protesting on private property Sunday evening were thrown into the street by police, and several were then arrested for being on the street.
Approximately 500 people had gathered at France and East in downtown Baton Rouge after first coming together at a nearby Methodist church to protest the police killing of Alton Sterling. Meeting the protesters were about 100 officers in riot gear. A homeowner gave the protesters safe refuge on her front lawn so they would not be arrested for being in the street.
“No justice, no peace!” they yelled.
After 90 minutes of peaceful assembly, police charged the crowd for no clear reason. Protesters scattered, many running down a side street. Those protesters were then arrested for obstruction of a highway.
A wall of riot police then pushed the scattered protesters further away, block by block, and arrested some at the front of the crowd. “Clear the streets and leave the area!” one officer shouted through a bullhorn. “This is an unlawful assembly!”
Several protesters threw water bottles and rocks at cops as they retreated.
The homeowner told CBS News she was "stunned" by police behavior.
"I kept telling them: 'This is my property, please do not do that, I live here,'" she said. "They just looked at me and ignored the things I was saying."
Police confront protestors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: photo by AP, 10 July 2016
Scenes from the protest held in downtown #BatonRouge earlier this evening. #AltonSterling: image via Brianna Paciorka @bpaciorka, 10 July 2016
Scenes from the protest held in downtown #BatonRouge earlier this evening.Here, protestors seeking refuge are pursued by police into the yard of a private home, whose owner had offered sanctuary. #AltonSterling: image via Brianna Paciorka @bpaciorka, 10 July 2016
Scenes from the protest held in downtown #BatonRouge earlier this evening. #AltonSterling: image via Brianna Paciorka @bpaciorka, 10 July 2016
Arrests are made on the lawn of aprivate residence whose owner had offered sanctuary to those fleeing police after the protest held in downtown #BatonRouge earlier this evening. #AltonSterling: image via Brianna Paciorka @bpaciorka, 10 July 2016
A demonstrator protests the shooting death of Alton Sterling near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 10 July 2016
Louisiana has no money for schools and children's services but #BatonRouge has a small army: image via Mike @thedecider99, 10 July 2016
Louisiana is ranked 26th in per-pupil education spending, but they can afford tanks and assault gear. #BatonRouge: image via Capt. Jake Ballard @kidnoble, 10 July 2016
Man brings mirror to #BlackLivesMatter protest via @choudychouds: image via Calestous Juma @calestous, 10 July 2016
Take a look at the questions raised by the people of Baton Rouge at the #AltonSterling memorial. Thx, @BrotherJesse: Look what we're up against in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: image via Hal Dockins @HalDockins, 9 July 2016
Man who posted Alton Sterling shooting video has been arrested by police: image via The Source Magazine, 10 July 2016
#BREAKING: BRPD says 48 people arrested during evening protest downtown near Government Street: image via WAFB @WAFB, 10 July 2016
After spending the majority of his bday locked up, @Deray is free but we cant stop until everyone is out! #FreeDeray: image via CHERNO BIKO @ChernoBiko, 10 July 2016 Baton Rouge, LA
A Donald Trump henchman. Hmmm...he seems nice. NOT!!!! #BLM #Baton Rouge: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 10 July 2016
#AltonSterling #BatonRouge: image via deray mckesson @deray, 10 July 2016
Protest has reached the State Capitol #WaveMarchforJustice #AltonSterling: image via Terry L Jones Verified account @tjonesreporter, 10 July 2016
What about this #BatonRouge cop?: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 10 July 2016
Ray Albers "resigned" after pointing rifle and threatening protesters in #Ferguson: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 10 July 2016
What about this #BatonRouge cop?: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 10 July 2016
Louisiana Gov after #AltonSterling shooting: “We have to reevaluate where we are, how we recruit and train officers”: image via BuzzFeed News Verified account @BuzzFeed News, 10 July 2016
Three countries urge caution traveling to U.S. amid protests, violence: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 July 2016