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The pistol-toting 'Angel of Mercy' that saved a driver from an angry Detroit mob
This lady is one of the greatest human beings on Earth.
From those of us who care: Dear lady, bless you and thank you!
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25196717/the-pistol-toting-angel-of-mercy-that-saved-a-driver-from-an-angry-detroit-mob
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As many as 10 - 12 people are believed to have participated in the beating while dozens of others stood by and watched - saying nothing, doing nothing.
Except one.
Deborah Hughes lives across the street. The retired nurse may have saved the life of that driver, Steve Utash. She broke up the angry mob that was beating him. Detroit Police Chief James Craig knocked on the woman's door and personally called her a "Detroit hero."
She tells her story in this edition of The Americans with Charlie LeDuff. Watch the full story in the video player above.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Keisha Thomas and the Ann Arbor Riot
On June 22, 1996, a group of 17 Ku Klux Klan members met in the city hall of Ann Arbor, Michigan –fully clothed in hate robes. With intention to hold a rally, they were met with an angry group of 300 protestors who wanted them to know they weren’t welcome. In the midst of the protestors, majority black, someone spotted a middle-aged white man wearing a Confederate t-shirt. Through his clothes and “SS” tattoo, it appeared that he was a white supremacist.
Once his presence was made known, a crowd of angry people chased him down and began to beat him in the streets, one yelling “Kill the Nazi”. While there were policeman with gas masks and riot gear protecting the Klansman who wore full garb on the other side of the fence, there was no one protecting the man who chose to stand on the same side as the protestors to observe, while he wore a symbol that represented racism on his shirt.
After the man was on the ground, being kicked and beaten with wooden sticks, 18-year-old Keshia Thomas, a black woman, threw her body over his and protected the man from the beating.
When asked why she helped him, Keshia Thomas said “…violence is violence – nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea.” Thomas admits to being a victim of violence and a spiritual person who believed that beating the man was wrong.
Keshia Thomas never knew that man she saved, nor did she seek him out for thanks. However, a few months later, the man’s son thanked her in a coffee shop.
The images of the incident will live on, capturing the bravery of a high school girl who saved someone who may not have saved her in the same situation.
http://blackamericaweb.com/180424/little-known-black-history-fact-keisha-thomas/
Many more details and a full set of photograpsh leading up the event and her actions right here:
http://www.viralnova.com/keshia-thomas/
This is true power, that the bigots and the violent cannot grasp. The media should run many stories like this... I would like to see the racists at FNN run these, but they wouldn't want to offend their owners. The USA has a lot to learn.
On June 22, 1996, a group of 17 Ku Klux Klan members met in the city hall of Ann Arbor, Michigan –fully clothed in hate robes. With intention to hold a rally, they were met with an angry group of 300 protestors who wanted them to know they weren’t welcome. In the midst of the protestors, majority black, someone spotted a middle-aged white man wearing a Confederate t-shirt. Through his clothes and “SS” tattoo, it appeared that he was a white supremacist.
Once his presence was made known, a crowd of angry people chased him down and began to beat him in the streets, one yelling “Kill the Nazi”. While there were policeman with gas masks and riot gear protecting the Klansman who wore full garb on the other side of the fence, there was no one protecting the man who chose to stand on the same side as the protestors to observe, while he wore a symbol that represented racism on his shirt.
After the man was on the ground, being kicked and beaten with wooden sticks, 18-year-old Keshia Thomas, a black woman, threw her body over his and protected the man from the beating.
When asked why she helped him, Keshia Thomas said “…violence is violence – nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea.” Thomas admits to being a victim of violence and a spiritual person who believed that beating the man was wrong.
Keshia Thomas never knew that man she saved, nor did she seek him out for thanks. However, a few months later, the man’s son thanked her in a coffee shop.
The images of the incident will live on, capturing the bravery of a high school girl who saved someone who may not have saved her in the same situation.
http://blackamericaweb.com/180424/little-known-black-history-fact-keisha-thomas/
Many more details and a full set of photograpsh leading up the event and her actions right here:
http://www.viralnova.com/keshia-thomas/
This is true power, that the bigots and the violent cannot grasp. The media should run many stories like this... I would like to see the racists at FNN run these, but they wouldn't want to offend their owners. The USA has a lot to learn.
