Jaime King really put herself on the line protesting against the police.
On Tuesday night the “Black Summer” star attended a peaceful protest for George Floyd in Los Angeles and was swept up in a series of arrests, along with friends and other protesters.
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She updated later, saying that she was still sitting on the bus after more than four hours, and that women with her were not given access to medicine, bathrooms, and that some had untreated injuries. In since-deleted tweets.
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Over the last week, King has been vocal in support of the protests and Black Lives Matter, using her social media presence to amplify Black voices.
King later updated her followers on Instagram with footage of the evening. Resharing the words her friend wrote of the evening, King posted, “A little about the arrest: the cops cuffed and separated us into 2 lines — men and women. One trans woman was violently ripped away from her partner and placed on a bus labelled ‘other.’ Another young woman was sexually harassed as officers openly ogled and commented on her body.”
“Once we were loaded onto the bus, a quick, informal survey revealed that every WOC had been aggressively frisked, including vaginal probing. None of us white women were frisked. They didn’t even search my pockets,” she continued. “Two of us slipped out of our cuffs and we helped each other grab phones, fed each other, scratched each other’s itches, and sang a woman happy birthday at midnight.”
“The jails were already full, so they took us to a parking lot in Van Nuys (40 min away from arrest site) for processing. Cops can make anything a jail; the night before they turned UCLA into a jail. They refused to tell us on the bus where they were taking us. A woman asked how she was supposed to get home. A cop laughed and said ‘not my problem’.”