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Black protester carries white man
through angry crowd to safety to
'stop someone from being killed'
A Black Lives Matter protester photographed carrying a white man – assumed to be a far-right counter-protester – to safety when demonstrations descended into violence in London Saturday said he chose to step up, rather than let the man be pummeled by the crowd, “to stop someone from being killed.”
Patrick Hutchinson, a member of Black Lives matter in London, England, and 4 friends demonstrated that people can Protest INJUSTICE and brutal, deadly mistreatment of others without embracing hate, without embracing violence, and without becoming the issue/thing being protested.
'Patrick Hutchinson, who is black, and four other Black Lives Matter protesters said they witnessed an altercation break out at the top of the stairs by the Southbank Centre, near the Waterloo Station.
The five men then surrounded the white man who had fallen to the ground, forming a barrier in the crowd to prevent him from being trampled. Hutchinson said he then “scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment."
It would be awesome in Americans of all colors, on all sides, in this country could be reminded by this act that we are ALL Americans, United We Stand, that we can protest / stand against something without descending into barbaric, animalistic, terroristic behavior, committing heinous acts against those who have done nothing to us or even who may have a different view.
When violence is chosen the message is lost, all progress is lost, and the cause is lost.
God bless Patrick Hutchinson and his friends for rejecting the mob mentality, the hate, and violence, for choosing instead to remember who they are as people at the core, remembering what they stand for / believe in, and choosing to do the right thing!
Hopefully their actions changed the life / perceptions / beliefs of the man whose life he saved....perhaps changed many who witnessed it...and hopefully changed a whole lot more people.
It only takes a few people to stand up to the tidal wave of hate, violence, and manipulation...to tell the people attempting to fan the flames of racial division, hate, and violence, "NO!" to spread kindness, understanding, peace, mending, and forgiveness.
Black protester carries white man through angry crowd to safety to 'stop someone from being killed'
A Black Lives Matter protester photographed carrying a white man – assumed to be a far-right counter-protester – to safety when demonstrations devolved into violence in London Saturday said he chose to step up, rather than let the man be pummeled by the crowd, “to stop someone from being killed.”
www.foxnews.com