These Frontline Workers Are Protecting Protestors at All Costs

For volunteer medics and legal observers, confronting police violence can come with mental and physical tolls

Iman Sultan
GEN
Published in
6 min readSep 15, 2020

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A protester who was maced by police receives medical attention during a demonstration in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images

Shortly after midnight in Seattle in June, cars passed the street where Danielle Meehan kneeled with an unconscious girl lying on a cot. Aubreanna Inda had been hit by a…

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Iman Sultan
GEN
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Iman Sultan is a Pakistani-American journalist covering culture and politics. Her work explores identity and how communities shape politics.