Anger toward the police grows after the storm: “Blacks had been treated differently”

Since late October, Nadine Seiloe has been camping at Black Lives Matter Plaza, located next to the barricades in front of the White House in Washington DC. His plan is to monitor the site until Donald Trump leaves the presidency.

Earlier this week, he received reports that right-wing groups were planning to storm the Capitol and demolish Black Lives Matter Plaza.

– I was just laughing. And I laughed on Wednesday morning when I saw these people go by. I thought “good luck with the storm,” he says.

A few hours later reports of the shootings came. Then he had to evacuate.

– Not in my wildest imagination could I imagine that they would be allowed to do what they did on Wednesday. Although I am cynical, and although I know the history of this country, I did not think that they would be allowed to do this in 2021, he says.

Black Lives Matter Plaza got its name on June 5, in a decision by the Democratic mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, and in direct reaction to the drama in the capital, when Trump called the National Guard and federal police to reject the demonstrations after George Floyds. death.

Nadine Seiloe is accompanied by Karen who does not want to give her last name. They fall in love with each other in the speech, when they describe how they have been treated themselves when they protested racism in America:

– We are exposed to tear gas …

– And people are arrested …

– Just because they’re in this place. Although they have not done anything.

Nadine Seiloe and Karen aren’t the only ones feeling shock and dismay.

In recent days Congressmen have come under fire for how Trump’s rally on Wednesday could degenerate. The protesters managed to scale walls and push police into the congress building and up to the desk of Democratic President Nancy Pelosi. There is information about police officers posing for selfies with the insurgents and police officers who helped open the riot fence.

Critics include former first lady Michelle Obama and incoming President Joe Biden. Both conclude that the protesters in the Black Life affair have been treated with an entirely different brutality.

“It is unacceptable,” Biden wrote on Twitter.

And the global network Black Lives Matters uses words like coup and hypocrisy to describe the assault on the Capitol. “Believe it or not, if the protesters were black, we would have wept, beaten and perhaps shot,” the organization wrote on Twitter.

Nadine Seiloe can only agree with that description, where she is in the breeze at Black Lives Matter Plaza.

– The only explanation why it happened as it did is that these people are white, he says.

Karen claims that the white power movement has consistently worked to infiltrate the police force.

– They’re inside, she says.

A few meters away highlights Kemp Gatewood, who has demonstrated in front of the White House since spring 2018 to make 9/11 a memorial day. He is a black man wearing a Trump campaign cap.

– I support our president, he says.

He condemns the violence on Capitol Hill but blames some extremists. And he doesn’t think the protesters have been treated differently than the Black Lives Matters activists.

– I’ve never seen a common Trump supporter misbehave, he says.