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Nakima Levy Armstrong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
206 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

that they have inflicted upon the Twin Cities is just out of control.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

I mean, literally, I don't know if you heard the story of what happened the other day after they shot a Venezuelan man in the leg.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

You know, they essentially unleashed flashbang grenades.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

Georgia was actually out there that night because she and I were in communication.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

So it was like a war zone in the streets of North Minneapolis, which is primarily black and lower income community, although it is diverse.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

But they shot grenades, tear gas, and actually they wound up shooting a flashbang grenade and hitting a vehicle that had a family, a black family in it with six children.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And the six month old in the vehicle actually stopped breathing and became unconscious.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And the mother was on the phone with 911, learning how to give her baby CPR to keep her baby alive.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And so her child had her baby had to be hospitalized, plus two other children, completely innocent people.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And the flashbang boom was so strong it deployed all the airbags in that vehicle.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

So you have a family completely terrorized, just terrified, driving down the street.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

coming from their son's basketball game, subjected to this level of brutality and terrorism.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

It is like slave patrols.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

We have to remember history is repeating itself here.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

You know, when I arrived on the scene, there was smoke actually on both sides of the intersection that I arrived at, which was very strange.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

So trying to figure out where exactly ice was was extremely difficult because they were kind of just surrounding the entire neighborhood.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And then we received reports that they were a few blocks over at another intersection.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

And so to have this type of occupation in a highly residential area where

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

One of the most dense populations of African-Americans in the state was was very alarming.

The Don Lemon Show
Lemon LIVE at 5 | ICE ALERT: It's Getting Much Worse!

But, you know, it was interesting.