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In this essay, I am going to discuss Jonathan Bachman, taking in Baton Rouge a press photograph from a Black Lives Matter protest in 2015.
This photo shows a woman -named Leshia Evans a nurse from New York- calmly standing in a long summer in the middle of the road confronting the police who are all wearing full riot gear. Two officers are running up to her to arrester her with zip ties â the police use zip ties so they can restrain multiple people-. This image has become the main leading image of the Black Lives Matter protest and won multiple awards from the world press Photo and LensCulture. Black Lives Matter started in 2013 George Zimmerman shot seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin and started with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter and then the movement grew after the deaths of Eric Garner and Michel Brown in 2014 and focuses on the aggressive and violent acts of the police towards people of color. The police look like they are in disbelief. Leshia Evans traveled from New York to Louisiana on the ninth of July to protest police brutality after the murder of Alton Sterling an African American who was shot to death by the police during an incident in Baton Rouge -Louisiana- on the fifth of July. The police were called because someone had called the police saying a black was selling CDs and threatened him with a gun. The shooting was captured on video and was videoed by an unknown witness causing the protests In Baton Rouge. The video shows two police officers approach him and one of the police officers tackled him over the bonnet of his car allegedly restraining him down on the ground, at one point in the video you can hear in the background someone shouting that 'he's got a gun and then there were gunshots, but the owner of a shop nearby said he never saw Alton reach for a gun. He was a father of 5 and sold DVDs and CDs in the car park where he died.
The photographer who took this was called Jonathan Bachman this was the first protest he had ever covered, and he took around 1200 photographs that day. He dropped out of college to pursue photography.
Leshia Evans spent 24 hours in jail. The police claimed after her arrest that she was arrested for obstruction of a highway. They took her stuff and fingerprinted her they also stripped and searched her even as far as making her squat and cough. They were treating her like a dangerous criminal. The irony was those police officers processing her were African American women. Leshia Evans has spoken about how she was a symbol and how people just assumed what she was like, and how when people get to know her, she does not live up to there.
'I'm not against protesting peacefully, and I'm not pro-violence, but I'm definitely in favor of defending yourself. When people hear the way I speak, they're usually like, 'Uhh, this is not what I thought. We thought you were just about peace and holding hands!'' (Leisha Evans, 2018)
This image shows that individual actions matter.
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