IN RURAL OREGON, THREATS AND BACKLASH FOLLOW RACIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS. Shortly after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, 28-year-old Josie Stanfield organized a Black Lives Matter protest in the Central Oregon town of Prineville, home to about 10,000 residents. Fewer than 1% are Black. … She remembers classmates throwing food at her or whispering the N-word in the hallways.
