10 Jul Ieshia Evans – Protestor for The People and a Hero

‘This is the work of God. I am a vessel’: NYC nurse behind powerful protest picture, who traveled to Baton Rouge to march for ‘a better future for her son’, speaks out after night in jail

• Woman who was captured in iconic arrest photo from Baton Rouge has been revealed as 28-year-old Ieshia Evans
• Evans, a licensed practical nurse and mother to a five-year-old son, was attending her first protest on Saturday
• Friends told Dailymail.com that she was arrested as police tried to push demonstrators back from their building
• Evans found their actions unjust, as the protest was peaceful, so crossed her arms and stared them down
• She was held for 24 hours but has now been released and is recovering in a hotel room before traveling home 

Young sister Ieshia Evans of Baton Rouge standing fearless before the jackboot thugs of the BRPD grabbed, and stopped her from protesting.

“The spirit of the people is greater than the man’s technology”~ Dr. Huey P. Newton