This Picture Of A Woman Facing Cops At 'Black Lives Matter' Will Remind You Of Tianmen's Tank Man Shot!
The photo was taken by New Orleans-based photographer Jonathan Bachman in Baton Rouge in Americas Louisiana at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. The girl is wearing a strappy dress and confronting the cops silently with a look of determination on herface. 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.
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.
