TIL in 1996, a black teenager, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an "SS" tattoo and and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob's strikes, due to her belief that "nobody deserves to be hurt."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24653643



Submitted April 07, 2015 at 02:34AM by Meunderwears http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31o73u/til_in_1996_a_black_teenager_while_marching_to/