Nakima Levy Armstrong
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And the mother was on the phone with 911, learning how to give her baby CPR to keep her baby alive.
And so her child had her baby had to be hospitalized, plus two other children, completely innocent people.
And the flashbang boom was so strong it deployed all the airbags in that vehicle.
So you have a family completely terrorized, just terrified, driving down the street.
coming from their son's basketball game, subjected to this level of brutality and terrorism.
It is like slave patrols.
We have to remember history is repeating itself here.
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.
So trying to figure out where exactly ice was was extremely difficult because they were kind of just surrounding the entire neighborhood.
And then we received reports that they were a few blocks over at another intersection.
And so to have this type of occupation in a highly residential area where
One of the most dense populations of African-Americans in the state was was very alarming.
But, you know, it was interesting.
You know, I've been out covering protests that got intense after Dante Wright was killed, after the murder of George Floyd.
And I've been around flashbangs being deployed before.
And so when I got home, my husband asked me, you know, was I OK?
And I was like, there was something different about the flashbangs.
That they deployed tonight.
I said they were so strong, the entire block shook.
And I think maybe people thought I was over exaggerating.