A lady wearing only a dark face veil and a stocking top walked toward twelve heavily armed agents attired in camouflage fatigues, arranged over a midtown Portland road.
Naked Athena identity revealed (Picture Credit - New York Post)
Naked Athena’s identity revealed: The agents, dispatched by the Trump organization over vociferous complaints of state and city authorities, are a piece of a power that has terminated shots at and detained activists protesting nightly since the murdering of George Floyd by Minneapolis police May 25.
Various photographs and recordings posted on Twitter show the unidentified lady as she stopped in the middle of the street at 1:45 a.m. She stood calmly, a strange picture of human weakness in the face of an overpowering force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates.
In a recent podcast interview over the weekend, the woman stepped out to reveal herself as Jen, a sex worker in her 30s who claimed that her encounter with the police was not planned and that she had reacted that way in the spur of the moment as she found the behaviour of the cops offensive.
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“The fury arose in me and I told my friends ‘I want to be naked, I want to confront them’, and my partner said ‘I’ll hold your clothes,” and so I ducked in a doorway and took everything off except my mask and my hat… because of its cold. And I walked out there,” she revealed in the ‘Unrefined Sophisticates’ podcast.
The demonstration lasted for 15 minutes throughout which the woman dramatically struck several ballet-like poses, maybe with an end goal to communicate the excellence in her weakness as she remained in prospective harm’s way. Over the span of the trick, a fellow protester came to offer the lady insurance behind his shield.
The lady, who has been named “Naked Athena” by the web, ventured out from the behind the shield, signalling that she needed no protection. After the demonstration, witnesses and protesters present at the site to help her that she left the road and blended back in the group similarly as harmlessly as she had shown up.
George Floyd, an African American, was killed on 25 May 2020 during a police arrest. George Floyd is not the first African American whose death in police custody sparked protests.
There were also rallies and calls for change after Tamir Rice, Michael Brown and Eric Garner were killed by police. Protests seeking justice for Floyd began in the United States the next day. Citizens of other countries soon followed suit. Internationally, protesters have shown opposition to racism worldwide, opposed police brutality, questioned the arming of police, and expressed solidarity with their counterparts in the United States. Prominent local issues have included the 2016 death of Adama Traoré near Paris while in police custody (for whom roughly 20,000 people have protested at various times) and the high rate of death amongst incarcerated Indigenous Australians.
