Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Bethel, Ohio, Black Lives Matter event met with motorcycle gangs and armed counterprotesters - The Washington Post

In what she called her longest-ever Facebook post, Alicia Gee said she was preparing on a cheerful Sunday morning not for church but for a demonstration “long overdue in my little town." “A demonstration to show my neighbors there are people who care, to show my very monochromatic town that Black Lives Matter,” said Gee, who identified herself as a lifelong resident of the village of Bethel, Ohio — population roughly 2,800. It was a testament to the wide reach of the movement against racism and police brutality convulsing the country since George Floyd’s death in police custody, weeks of demonstrations that have swept from cities to suburbs and tiny Midwestern towns that haven’t seen protests in decades.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/bethel-ohio-black-lives-counterprotest/

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