*Reuters took lots of photographs during the protests against police killings that took place in various cities over the weekend, but one seems to have caught fire on social media.
Shot by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters, the photograph shows a black woman in profile, standing in the middle of the street as two police officers in riot gear prepare to arrest her in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Powerful image of protester being detained near HQ of the Baton Rouge PD. via @reuters https://t.co/VVBnwixzqp pic.twitter.com/sM4QndNlfb
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 10, 2016
According to CNN, people are already calling the photograph iconic for its symbolism of a single person’s nonviolent stand against heavily armed opposition – like Marc Riboud’s photo of a Vietnam war protester holding a flower in front of armed police…
And the image of the lone protester confronting a tank in Tiananmen Square.
At least 312 people have been arrested at protests from New York to Chicago, and in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Baton Rouge, where two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, were shot to death by police.
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