Baton Rouge protester in flowing dress is identified as Ieshia Evans

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Source: Daily Mail UK

EXCLUSIVE: 'This is the work of God. I am a vessel': NYC nurse behind powerful protest picture, who traveled to Baton Rouge to march for 'a better future for her son', speaks out after night in jail

-Woman who was captured in iconic arrest photo from Baton Rouge has been revealed as 28-year-old Ieshia Evans
-Evans, a licensed practical nurse and mother to a five-year-old son, was attending her first protest on Saturday
-Friends told Dailymail.com that she was arrested as police tried to push demonstrators back from their building
-Evans found their actions unjust, as the protest was peaceful, so crossed her arms and stared them down
-She was held for 24 hours but has now been released and is recovering in a hotel room before traveling home

It is the photo seen around the world: A young woman in a flowing dress standing with her arms crossed facing down a line of heavily armed police while two armored officers rush forward to put her in handcuffs.

Now Dailymail.com can exclusively reveal the woman to be Ieshia Evans, 28, a mother and licensed practical nurse from New York, who was attending her first protest when she was arrested.

Natasha Haynes said Evans, a lifelong friend, traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the shooting of Alton Sterling because she 'wanted a better future for her five-year-old son'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3683863/Woman-icon-Baton-Rouge-mother-five-year-old-son-attending-protest-wants-better-future-him.html

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Mods: this is an update with the woman identified for the first time