What does protesting look like near and far, when a sudden seismic upheaval sends tremors throughout an entire nation? USA TODAY Network journalists spoke to people across the nation to better understand the situation on the ground. Here's what we heard:
As a precinct burned and cars were toppled in response to the killing of George Floyd and police brutality nationwide, smaller cities in America started conversations no less life-and-death than in Minneapolis or Detroit. They may be calm, silent, tumultuous or violent conversations outside U.S. major metros, but they all share something: black citizens driving them who say conditions have not been and are no longer tenable for everyday living.
Taurice Bussey and Nikki Bowdoin found themselves in such a moment — human beings on either side of the battle lines drawn in the streets of downtown Greenville as the Sunday sun began to set on a contentious weekend of protest.The other a public servant and former high school basketball player who one season was the only white player on her team.Greenville isn’t accustomed to mass civil unrest.
“Please, will someone hold a Black Lives Matter sign? Show us you care?” Bussey asked the line of police using their shoulder-to-shoulder bodies and bicycles as a human barrier.Greenville police officer Nikki Bowdoin, right, holds a “No Justice No Peace” sign protester Taurice Bussey, left, gave her during a protest remembering George Floyd at Falls Park in Greenville on May 31.
Deep within the pleas and demands was an intimate, visceral culmination of years of frustration poured out in anger and sadness all at once.“The people whose eyes I was looking into were pleading their hearts out,” Bowdoin told USA TODAY in an interview. “It touched my heart, and I wanted them to know. I wanted them to know, ‘Hey, we’re not against you. We’re not against what you’re standing for and what you’re here for.
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