Baton Rouge protestor in viral photo: 'I am a vessel'
 

Baton Rouge protestor in viral photo: 'I am a vessel'
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Her stance, that of calm poise in the face of an intimidating row of armored cops, caught the eye of photographer*Jonathan Bachman on Saturday and the resulting image has since been splashed on news sites across the globe.

**w, the woman, captured during a *Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge in a photograph some are likening*to the snap of the Tiananmen Square stand-off in Beijing in 1989, has been named.

She's 28-year-old*Ieshia Evans, and she says she's a "vessel" from God.

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