Her stance, that of calm poise in the face of an intimidating row of armored cops, caught the eye of photographer Jonathan Bachman on Saturday and the resulting image has since been splashed on news sites across the globe.
Now, the woman, captured during a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge in a photograph some are likening to the snap of the Tiananmen Square stand-off in Beijing in 1989, has been named.
She’s 28-year-old Ieshia Evans, and she says she’s a “vessel” from God.
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