This Powerful Pic From #BlackLivesMatter Protest Has Everyone's Attention

A powerful image from the Black Lives Matter protests in USA has fired up public imagination and social media. The picture was taken in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling, 37 and black, was shot by two white police officers last week.

The picture, hailed as being definitive of the protests across USA, shows a lone demonstrator standing calmly in front of cops in riot gear, approaching her in what looks like an aggressive manner.
 

The arresting image was clicked by Reuters' photographer Jonathan Bachman on July 9 and promptly made its way online. The woman in the picture has now been identified as Ieshia Evans, a 28-year-old nurse and mother to a five-year-old boy, by DailyMail.

According to several reports, she was detained by police but later released.

On Facebook and Twitter, the poignant moment has been compared to the famous 'Tank Man' image from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
 

Brave lady in Baton Rouge.
Brave man in Tiananmen Square. pic.twitter.com/Zy4CaMwUF9

- Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) July 10, 2016

Photo credit: Jonathan Bachman @Reuters pic.twitter.com/vvBJ8wGiDF

- Paul Lackey (@holliemaea) July 10, 2016

#LeishaEvans in this emblematic #BatonRouge photo by Jonathon Bachman pic.twitter.com/fWchItmun2

- Lorraine (@lorraine_pters) July 11, 2016

In grayscale, would you guess 2016? My heart breaks. We must do better.#LeishaEvans #BatonRouge by Jonathan Bachman pic.twitter.com/Vt6f8md2Ew

- Irene Fernando (@irenekfernando) July 11, 2016

May become one of the most compelling photos of the 21c. Baton Rouge. Louisiana.
Jonathon Bachman: Reuters. pic.twitter.com/RApYq5H8yw

- Mark Johnson (@seminyaksunset) July 11, 2016

#LeishaEvans
a moment in time.....etched in history forever pic.twitter.com/vO0vd6Teiq

- Are We There Yet? (@KBCanB) July 11, 2016

I can't get over how much the image of #LeishaEvans echoes the iconic images of police violence during 1960s. pic.twitter.com/oIK5iYiXmK

- Tara Seshan (@tarstarr) July 11, 2016

The picture also brings to mind the one taken at last year's demonstrations in Macedonia. Also courtesy Reuters, the photo captured a young female protestor, later identified as Jasmin Golubovska, using a policeman's riot shield as a mirror to apply red lipstick moments before planting a kiss on it.