Woman who was beaten, had child taken by Philly police at protest speaks out

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This woman drove through a police line, the night after a truck plowed through it (first one was clearly an attack) running over an officer.

I don't know that her intentions were to hurt anyone, but this was stupid as fuck of her. The part of philly this was in isn't exactly in gridlock late at night, and it's a simple grid of small blocks. You don't just "make a wrong turn" and not see that you're forcing your vehicle through a police line.

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    Rickia Young made a wrong turn in Philadelphia on October 27 and found herself in the middle of civil unrest due to the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. She tried to turn back around but before she could officers swarmed the vehicle and yanked Young and her 16-year-old nephew out of the car. Her two-year-old son was sleeping in his car seat and was woken up to the sound of breaking glass, per The Philadelphia Inquirer.

    If you want a racist angle to this, nobody would give a fuck if this happened to a white woman.