A picture of a black woman peacefully facing cops at the ¡®Black Lives Matter¡¯ protest in the capital city of Louisiana is being compared to Tiananmen Square¡¯s ¡®Tank Man¡¯s¡¯ image that became hugely popular as a symbol of resistance in 1989. ?
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The photo was taken by New Orleans-based photographer, Jonathan Bachman in Baton Rouge in America's Louisiana at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest that has started again after two African-Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota were killed by cops in separate incidents.
The girl is wearing a strappy dress and confronting the cops silently with a look of determination on her?face, contrasting the bulky and agitated appearance of the officers. There is a shadow of strong resistance in the photo that bears striking resemblance to the image from 1989 of a lone Chinese man facing four tanks at a pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square. The man, whose identity could not be found has come to be known as 'Tank Man'.?
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¡®Black Lives Matter¡¯ protests have sparked over many states in the U.S again after a peaceful protest in Dallas turned violent when a sniper gunned down four cops.?
Twenty-five years ago, a pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square ended in a?massacre when Chinese troops killed an unknown number of people and since then the Chinese government has tried to conceal the events that took place on June 4, 1989.?