The Black Lives Matter photo everyone should see

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She is Ieshia Evans, 28, a nurse and mother. Ieshia has decided to take part in the peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration (Black lives matter) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The demonstration arose spontaneously after the episodes of violence between blacks from America and the forces of order.

I did it because I want to be able to look my son in the eye and tell him that his mother fought for his rights and his freedom.

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To the violence, Ieshia responded with courageous silence. He is elegant in his summer dress, but he does not look at a sunset over the sea, as one might expect: he stares at two policemen, in riot gear, clumsy in front of his austere presence.

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Ieshia was arrested. But his photo, testimony of the peaceful intentions of the demonstration, has already become an "icon of Black Lives Matter. So much so that it has been compared to the Unknown Riot of Tiananmen Square in 1989. Twenty-seven years later and, once again, silence has a "echo louder than the shots.