‘I’m Black, I’m Proud’: National Guard Responds To Viral Video Caught Amid DC Protest

The DC National Guard, who was caught on camera chanting the words, “I’m black and I’m proud” along with the protesters during the demonstration at Washington responded to the video, which went viral online.

In a short video uploaded by Twitter user @heedygreedy on Friday, protesters can be heard chanting the words “I’m black and I’m proud” followed by “George Floyd.” Amid the united chant, the camera caught a glimpse of a black man wearing the National Guard uniform silently chanting the words.

After the clip was posted on Twitter with hashtags Black Lives Matter, George Floyd and DC Protest, it received overwhelming responses from Netizens.

Khaled Abdelghany, in response to the clip, said that he would always say it. He proudly said that he was a black man first before anything.

Some Netizens, however, cautioned the uploader about the ramification of the video and asked him to take down the clip because it may endanger the National Guardsman.

Amid the protests, 1,200 D.C.-based and around 3,900 out-of-state National Guards from 11 states were called in to patrol the nation’s capital, CNN reported. However, President Donald Trump reportedly tweeted on Sunday morning that he ordered them to start the “process of withdrawing from Washington, D.C.”

The U.S. Park Police and the National Guard troops were called in to disperse the demonstrators who were reportedly peacefully protesting outside the White House. Amid the military force’s involvement, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser asked President Trump to withdraw “extraordinary law enforcement and military presence from Washington, D.C.”

Meanwhile, Bowser said that President Trump used the U.S. military forces for a political stunt and they were like toy soldiers used to intimidate Americans, NBC News reported. Mayor Bowser has made the headlines, stirring the social media after she decided to paint the street leading to the White House with “Black Lives Matter.”

Mayor Bowser reportedly joined the protesters on the streets of Washington on Saturday. She called for people to watch what was happening in the nation’s capital because they didn’t want the federal government to do this to any other American.