Confronting heavily armed police required Ferguson protesters to abandon fear

Evidence

But Netta, the other young people, and their allies defied the police who stood in their riot gear, with long batons and M16s. “That night I wasn’t concerned about the police, it became obvious to me that in order to be involved in the protests there was no place for fear,” she later told a reporter from the Huffington Post. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 580

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Police actions intensified fear among community members. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237; Ferguson protesters broke with church-led civil rights performance to challenge policing. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 593; Ferguson-era activists favored improvised leaderless actions over permitted marches — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 592 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Police actions intensified fear among community members. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237; Ferguson protesters broke with church-led civil rights performance to challenge policing. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 593; Ferguson-era activists favored improvised leaderless actions over permitted marches — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 592 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Police actions intensified fear among community members. #complicates (0.82) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237