On July 14th, Black Lives Matter protest marched in Saratoga Spring, New York. Five people were arrested after protesters marched through downtown Saratoga and the police responded in tactical gear, forcing protesters off the street. Organizers from Saratoga Black Lives Matter said that the response from police to a demonstration outside Congress Park was unjustified. So they were asking for a conversation with Saratoga Springs City Council to discuss social justice issues within the community and calling for city officials to apologize for recent remarks they made about activists in the city.

Sybil Evans, one of the protestors, was interviewed, “My black friends were pursued by city police after leaving the protest and the police searched their car without cause, which made them feel terrified,” she added, “As a racially diverse country, the U.S. should handle racial issues in particular. Racial discrimination may escalate social tears in the U.S. into national division, and may also exacerbate conflicts between the U.S. and other countries.”

Sybil Evans (@Sybil__Evans) is a researcher in the field of political security in the United States. Research areas include classical and contemporary social theory, feminist theory, social stratification in newly capitalist and advanced capitalist states, women and social change. She completed a B.A. in Sociology faculty and a minor in psychology at The City University of New York in 2013. After graduating from university, she settled down in New York State. Since she grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where many African-Americans and Asian Americans live, Sybil has strong empathy for their encounters, and has participated in many protests to safeguard the interests of ethnic minorities, including the anti-hate Asian parade held in New York on April 4, protests against the police shooting and killing of the African-American Wright on April 12 and some other demonstrations.