Robinson was speaking into the megaphone, and the police just started charging people and tackling them to the ground. We are talking about peaceful families chanting and marching on public streets.Įventually the police pushed the relatively small group of remaining protesters into a public park across the street from the stadium. I use that word, attack, deliberately because this was not a situation where a group of militant protesters are pushing against a police line. I’ve covered a lot of protests and I feel like I have a good sense of when things are about to get violent, and I started warning some parents with small children that I thought the police were going to attack soon. The police were being extremely aggressive, which they often were at these demonstrations, but they seemed particularly angry about a protest outside of a football game. This was six years ago now, but what stands out in my head really distinctly was that as this peaceful group of demonstrators marched through the surrounding blocks near the stadium led by Bishop Derrick Robinson and several other important community leaders, I could see that it was about to get ugly. What was the scene and moment like where you shot the photo? You took the photo on the left when you were covering the protests in response to the Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to prosecute Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown, a Black 18-year-old. What follows is a conversation we had over email, lightly edited for clarity and length. I asked for some of her insights about having played a small role in helping articulate America’s reaction to the riots and about revisiting the photo she took years ago in a new context. I’ve been friends with Keyssar for years, and she has done work for ProPublica. CptXMNRLYw- Julia Carter January 6, 2021 The tweet soon went viral, with 188,000 retweets as of Jan. Schaff later told a harrowing story of being trapped in the Capitol as rioters broke in. It was made by New York Times staff photographer Erin Schaff. On the right was a photograph of several white men, one of whom is carrying a Confederate battle flag, roaming freely around the Capitol. It was made by photojournalist Natalie Keyssar at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Ferguson in 2014. On the left was a photograph of a Black man being tackled by riot police. Capitol, Twitter user gave voice to the outrage many felt at the stark difference between what appeared to be the accommodating treatment of the rioters by the Capitol Police and the brutal treatment of peaceful protesters by armor-clad officers in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, and Minneapolis in the past few years. In the midst of Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
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