As police close in, on a hot day in Mobile, Alabama, a Black woman bashes a police car window to provide cover for her comrades during a protest. After her arrest, she frames her actions as defensive. It was necessary for them to escape because Black people are “killed for less” by police—the very reason she showed up to protest.
The same week, a Black teenager in Illinois who had worked as a camp counselor promotes a riot at a shopping mall, framing it as a counterattack against the “inequality” that Black people suffer daily.
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