Organizers in BLM burn copies of Seven Days; newspaper condemns 'authoritarian behavior'

[janterry]

Here's the original article

How Black Lives Matter Protesters Occupied a Park, Captivated a City — and Got Some of What They Wanted
and link:
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/how-black-lives-matter-protesters-occupied-a-park-captivated-a-city-and-got-some-of-what-they-wanted/Content?oid=31276351

Here's text from coverage by VT Digger
Battery Park protesters removed hundreds of copies of Seven Days from local newsstands throughout Burlington and later burned some copies to show their objection to the newspapers’ cover story this week about their movement.

Here's the part that leaders found objectionable (as described by VT Digger):

The story was a first-person telling, by staff writer Chelsea Edgar, about her time spent reporting on the Black Lives Matter encampment at Battery Park over the last month. It focused on the group’s decision not to speak to the media, and on one former organizer, Anthony Marques, who broke from that decision, and talked to Edgar for her story.

In the article, Marques criticized the Black women and femmes leading the protest, calling the movement a “cult,” and an “exploitation of white people.” Edgar described the protesters as “white girls waiting to be told what to do,” calling them “females of the TikTok demographic, dressed in black, sporting some combination of Blundstones, ironic tube socks and leg hair.”

The newspaper’s publisher on Friday announced that 5,000 additional copies were printed to repopulate newsstands, and offered a spirited defense of its coverage.