Posted on 11/20/2021 8:20:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Protesters filled streets around the world after George Floyd’s killing. For some, the scars of that summer run deep.
Rickia Young, a 29-year-old nurse’s aide, clearly remembers the moment police officers swarmed her car in West Philadelphia last year. She heard one window shatter, then another. Not only was she worried for her own safety, but Young said she feared for her toddler son’s life.
Young is among many Americans who say they were severely injured by police in the turbulent months after George Floyd’s death on Memorial Day 2020. Amid what has been called the broadest protests in U.S. history, with thousands of people showing up at hundreds of locations across the country to protest police violence and advocate for Floyd, Wallace, Breonna Taylor and other victims, dozens of demonstrators left marches with broken bones, cuts, bruises and more permanent injuries like blindness.
Many officers arrived at the protests dressed in tactical gear and deployed crowd-control agents like pepper spray and tear gas, as well as “less-lethal” weapons (known as kinetic impact projectiles) like rubber bullets and bean-bag rounds, on the primarily peaceful protesters.
At least 115 protesters across the country were shot with these crowd-control weapons in the neck or head from May 26 to July 27, 2020 according to a report from Physicians for Human Rights.
Hospital stays, lawsuits and calls for police accountability ensued. A year later, many like Young are still struggling to recover, and others fear there’s no healing for them at all.
Young said she suffered torn ligaments in her shoulder, an injury to her back, bruising on her right leg, and lacerations to her face. She was handcuffed and separated from her then 2-year-old son for several hours.
“They treated me like an animal,” said Young, who still lives with her mother.
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If the police shot them, they were not protesting, they were rioting. Protestors in the US did not get shot during the Demcorat Storm Troop riotes of 2020
That’s nice. How are the injured police doing?
But NO sympathy for the inured or dead cops or the people whose businesses were destroyed.
What about those injured by rioters you lying Char Adams, NBC, and Comcast?
I see, to recall they found the charred corpse of one fellow months after the riot.
Zero compassion or empathy for these a**holes. They got what they deserved. Plain ‘n simple as that.
—wah, wah, wah,—
Sticking with the narrative (AKA “lie”) that psychopaths who riot, loot, commit arson and kick business owners to death for the crime of protecting their businesses are “mostly peaceful protesters.”
Isn’t that a shame?
NBC and CNN continue to GIN UP riots.
they should be held accountable,
but no one in the MSM is.
You mean the same NBC/MSNBC who was stalking the jurors to photograph and intimidate them?
If the first sentence is a lie, it's hard to believe anything else in the story.
Well, you can’t get any money suing Antifa or BLM, so it must’ve been the cop’s fault.
Translation: I thought I had carte blanche to do anything I wanted while “protesting,” but I found out differently and got hurt.
and then there’s Ashli Babbitt...
Unless she was at the riot completely by accident, why was her two-year-old son along with her at the riot? And is she eligible for $450,000 compensation because her son was taken from her? Or is that offer only available for illegal alien invaders?
"Primarily peaceful". Yeah, right.
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