The city of Atlanta has now lifted Saturday's 8pm curfew.
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A lot of people have asked how the National Guard came to dance the Macarena. It all began with Amisha Harding, a 41-year-old non-profit consultant and realtor in Atlanta, who's been coming downtown to protest every day for nearly a week now. This is her story:pic.twitter.com/9qkPqAmlYF
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Last Sunday, she watched protesters yell at each other & the police lob tear gas. The people, she feared, could not sustain so much dark emotion. So on Monday, she and her cousin decided to bring a speaker and play disco, reggae & hip hop to try to foster a more positive mood.pic.twitter.com/Bcxpk7Qt8L
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Protesters danced and the mood felt a bit less heavy. By Thursday, she spotted a few members of the National Guard tapping their feet. She coaxed them to come forward. “You know you want to dance,” she teased.
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One or two of the troops broke formation to come forward. Then the major, then the general. Before long, more than a dozen men and women in camouflage were doing the electric slide, batons and assault rifles swinging to the beat.
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On Friday, she got them to dance the Macarena. “It was so beautiful,” she said. “Protesters saw the humanity in them and they saw the humanity in the protesters. We created a place for unity.” She's seen the negative response on social media. This is what she thinks:pic.twitter.com/gpnnX3L603
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Amisha Harding was one of tens of thousands of Americans who took to the streets Saturday to protest police violence and institutionalized racism:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-07/americans-gather-saturday-across-the-country-on-saturday-for-peaceful-demonstrations …
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This is how they’d dance on our graves Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So people will stop and watch and then they can arrest them for violating curfew
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Fascism is fun
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