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Woman screams at Filipina nurse distributing water during US protest

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Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/06/17/pinay.jpg"/><figcaption>Filipina-American nurse Krystle Ann Batong during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Courtesy of Krystle Ann Batong</figcaption></figure></div>FORT LEE, New Jersey -- Filipina-American nurse Krystle Ann Batong only wanted to hand out snacks and water to protesters and police during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Saturday.But instead of getting thanked for her good deed, Batong and a friend had an unwelcome encounter with one of the locals.“I wanted to show my support but I can’t be in a big crowd because we are still scared of COVID-19 reinfection, and the infection rate is going up,” she said. “The only way I can show my support is by donating water and snacks to protesters.”“[Then] this woman screamed at us, at the top of her lungs, saying &#x27;shame on you&#x27; and claimed that we were paid actors to come to Fort Lee and cause division and chaos.”The woman who yelled at Batong was one Melissa Osso, who went on Facebook live to report on exactly what she just did to the Filipina nurse.“I’ve already been called a racist, because I called them out for being divisive, for providing water which Black Lives Matters usually does. They provide water at these events, it’s not organic, it’s infiltrated, it causes division in our town and I’m not standing for that,” Osso told her Facebook followers. The screaming lady even confronted Batong for the second time, to show the Filipina nurse to her viewers.Osso narrated, “Here they’re providing water bottles, and they got their masks, see if you notice a commonality of shirts, you see the shirts, do you notice the commonality… there’s water.”But as Osso came too close to Batong, she said, “Can you stay six feet apart, we’re just handing out water to police officers, to marchers, to anybody who needs water.” Batong was shocked at Osso&#x27;s actions.“We didn’t think this existed here, but it did so we were just confused. I was also just hurt and I was angry, I couldn’t understand why she was attacking us for just handing out water,” she said.Osso reportedly also harassed peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters saying, “Shame on you, resist George Soros, shame on you.”Batong emphasized the BLM movement only wants to end police brutality.“We want accountability, want black lives to matter to everybody, it’s so sad for me to see someone so focused on Conspiracy theory,&quot; she said.Despite Osso&#x27;s actions, the Black Lives Matter protest in Fort Lee ended peacefully and without further incidents, the nurse said.African-American George Floyd&#x27;s death in Minneapolis on May 25, after a policeman knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes, sparked weeks of widespread protests and fresh calls for reforms across the United States.--with a report from Reuters

Filipina-American nurse Krystle Ann Batong only wanted to hand out snacks and water to protesters and police during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Saturday.

Filipina-American nurse Krystle Ann Batong only wanted to hand out snacks and water to protesters and police during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Saturday.

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Woman screams at Filipina nurse distributing water during US protest

Don Tagala,

ABS-CBN News

Published Jun 18, 2020 03:17 AM PHT

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