In the basement of St. Louis’ Saint John’s United Church of Christ at the end of the Labor Day weekend, Yates recounted almost a month’s worth of harrowing encounters with a militarized police force to a room of Black Lives Matter freedom riders. She woefully explained that as the days bled into one another, she began “marking days by police tactics.”
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