How injustices compound: Many protestors are people who‘ve lost health insurance during COVID.
After being beaten, tear gassed, or badly hurt, many are afraid to seek medical care to check for bleeds, fractures, or head injuries because they are newly uninsured.
I want racist people out of the medical field. Period. I don’t care how hard they worked. They the reason why black women are getting neglected and discriminated against in health care.
“There was no provocation. We were standing in a firm line facing them (the police) and they threw gas,” says protester who was standing on the front line when NOPD first deployed gas. Very painful, feared that people might be knocked off the very high bridge as they rushed back.