{"id":60869,"date":"2020-09-05T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dc-woman-harrassed-by-blm-protesters-in-viral-video-still-supports-movement\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T02:02:00","slug":"dc-woman-harrassed-by-blm-protesters-in-viral-video-still-supports-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dc-woman-harrassed-by-blm-protesters-in-viral-video-still-supports-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"#DC woman harrassed by BLM protesters in viral video still supports movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#DC woman harrassed by BLM protesters in viral video still supports movement<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 4, 2020 |<\/span> 10:02pm <\/p>\n

\n The Washington, DC, woman caught in a viral video getting harassed by anti-police brutality protesters says she still supports the Black Lives Matter movement \u2014 she just didn\u2019t like being bullied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wholeheartedly support the Black Lives Matter movement,\u201d urban planner and photographer Lauren Victor says in a Washington Post opinion piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also support an individual\u2019s choice to participate in a protest, or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victor said she has even participated in BLM demonstrations since the group surrounded her while she ate outdoors on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n

But \u201cit is never okay to coerce people\u2019s participation; that is just bullying,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, this is not an argument against anger, expressed loudly, about terrible things that are allowed to happ<\/a>en,\u201d Victor added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy desire is simply to see the vital energy that anger gives rise to be effectively directed to bring about important, lasting change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The viral video shows a crowd of young demonstrators closely surrounding Victor as they shouted, \u201cWhite silence is violence!\u201d and \u201cPut your fist up!\u201d<\/p>\n

But Victor didn\u2019t raise her first in the clip because she was unaware of the protest\u2019s cause, she said in the opinion piece.<\/p>\n

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A group of BLM protesters harass Lauren Victor.<\/span>RawsMedia<\/a> via Storyful<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No one in the group told her why they were marching when she asked, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they crowded around my table and started demanding that I raise my fist, it was their insistence that I participate in something that I did not understand that led me to withhold my hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn retrospect, I would have done the same thing even if it was crystal clear to me who they were and what they stood for. If you want my support, ask it of me freely,\u201d Victor added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we do in a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victor went on to write that her video has become a \u201cglobal Rorschach test,\u201d that is interpreted differently depending on the ideology of the viewer.<\/p>\n

She conceded that the video looks \u201cscary,\u201d but stressed that she was \u201cnot hurt in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she felt fear at the moment, she said she still had great hope for the movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a group of mostly young people of many racial backgrounds working together to sustain a movement to uphold Black people\u2019s civil rights,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are worse ways to spend a Monday night.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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