16. Beatty exhorts people to “take your country back, we’re dying left and right, they’re gonna kill us!” (unclear who “they” is) “Take the USA back! Take I back!” then “Trump 2020!”. It’s an impressive street performance.

17. Beatty struggles with the cops trying to get her in the back of a car and yells at a black bystander
“You’re an idiot! You’re a loser! You’re a coon!" "Your mama’s a coon! She raised a coon! She raised a coon like you! You hate yourself!"

18. This was a -very- well organized publicity stunt.

Someone was filming from the time they were opening paint cans in the back of Beatty's car until Beatty was driven away by cops.

19. Towards the end of the video an Asian American reporter for The New York Times runs up and asks the camerawoman for an interview.

She says: “We’re just Christians out here standing up for righteousness’ sake trying to encourage people to start taking their country back.”

20. A cop assigned to watch Beatty’s car asks them if they’re with a group.

Camerawoman: We’re Christians.

Cop: I’m Christian too.

Camerawoman: Yeah, we’re here to exhort our country to start takin’ it back. ...

21.

“...To stop with the nonsense—that all lives matter, blue lives matter—we don’t agree with “defund the police” & we’re here to be a voice because the left has the loudest voice right now, & we’ve had enough. We’ve had enough. Jesus is King. Black Lives Matter is not King."

22. The News 4 article captures some of this, but they didn’t include the name of At The Well Ministries. They call themselves Christian abolitionists.

https://www.atthewellministries.org/ 
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AtWellMinistries.org/posts/?ref=page_internal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_abolitionism

23. After their arrest, Beatty and her friend/roommate, Edmee Chavannes, released this statement on Facebook which was reposted by At the Well Ministries.

L: https://www.facebook.com/zakia.beatty/posts/188437106046042?__tn__=H-R
https://archive.vn/Rtgar 

R: https://www.facebook.com/AtWellMinistries.org/posts/149781573412912?__tn__=-R

24. They also set up a GoFundMe but it has since been removed. This screenshot is from Google cache.

L: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OXh2rw437-AJ:https://www.gofundme.com/f/g9mzt-bevelyn-beatty+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

R: https://www.gofundme.com/f/g9mzt-bevelyn-beatty

25. Three other GoFundMe campaigns turn up in a search for her name on the platform. They were all set up in the past 6 hours. They could be fraudulent or may genuinely wish to help her.

1: https://archive.vn/ni1HL 
2: https://archive.vn/qq0JQ 
3: https://archive.vn/rtFKx 

26. I turned up even more GoFundMe campaigns for Beatty with a Google search. All have been removed or deactivated.

27. From what I’ve reviewed, Beatty seems to be a professional fundamentalist Christian activist. A lot of the stuff she’s saying is in line with things we’ve heard from white fundamentalist Christians for years.

28. But I’ve never heard of her organization or the churches she has ties to so I’m unclear what the larger picture is here. If anyone finds any informed commentary, please send it my way.

29. Well, I continued digging and there’s a whole lot more context that the New York media hasn’t dug up yet.

Unexpected twist: Bevelyn Beatty & Edmee Chavannes are with Gays for Trump.

L: 6/22/20
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTrump2020/videos/our-girl-bevelyn-beatty-trolls-paid-protesters-at-planned-parenthood-lets-make-t/652569298669040/

R: 7/16/20
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTrump2020/videos/our-girls-bevelyn-beatty-and-edmee-were-stopped-harassed-by-jetblue-employees-fo/308069297001005/

30. Fox 5 noted this about a previous vandal:

"One person, who appears white, is wearing an "All Lives Matter" shirt and a Pride flag with the words "LGBT for Trump" around their neck."

https://archive.vn/cOw6M  https://www.fox5ny.com/news/woman-who-vandalized-blm-mural-in-midtown-strikes-murals-in-harlem-brooklyn

31. In 2018, Beatty was living in Maine and ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives as a Republican.

L:
https://www.facebook.com/BelfastRadio/photos/bevelyn-beatty-republican-candidate-for-maine-house-of-representatives-from-belf/804285843090488/
https://archive.vn/gdtJ7 

R: https://ballotpedia.org/Bevelyn_Beatty 
https://archive.vn/l2eWi 

32. Back in May 2017, Beatty was arrested and charged with assaulting a woman at a Bangor nightclub. Video showed her "arguing with other patrons for letting a male use the women’s rest room at the Half Acre Nightclub”.

https://archive.vn/szaBI 
https://freepressonline.com/Content/Download-the-current-issue-as-a-pdf/Features/Article/Candidate-for-Belfast-House-Seat-Facing-Assault-Charge/93/78/57550

33. In July 2018, Beatty was convicted of the assault. She was in the process of appealing the conviction when she announced in September that she was dropping out of the race, citing a lack of support from God and the GOP.

https://archive.vn/irhy8 
https://freepressonline.com/Content/Features/Politics-Government/Article/Belfast-GOP-Candidate-to-Drop-Out-of-House-Race-Appealing-Assault-Conviction/52/541/60835

34. Beatty had been "arrested on a series of charges including assault with a deadly weapon, felony larceny, trespassing and conspiracy felony" as a teenager in North Carolina. She “surrendered her life to Jesus in jail.”

https://freepressonline.com/Content/Top-Scrolling-Area/Top-Scrolling-Area/Article/Candidate-for-Belfast-House-Seat-Facing-Assault-Charge/126/724/57550

35. Beatty reports a difficulty childhood including being shot in the leg, stabbed in the back (literally), being homeless, a single mother with bipolar disorder, and a father who was "absent at times due to his life of crime and discord with my mother”.

36. Beatty’s views on how Jesus can cleansed her.

37. The Free Press reported in September 2018 that Beatty had been working for several years as a street preacher and after dropping out of the race "plans to stay in New York and focus on her ministry and motivational speaking."

https://freepressonline.com/Content/Features/Politics-Government/Article/Belfast-GOP-Candidate-to-Drop-Out-of-House-Race-Appealing-Assault-Conviction/52/541/60835

38. Beatty missed the deadline to have her name removed from the ballot and lost to Janice Dodge (Democrat).

https://archive.vn/2gQ7s 
https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/dodge-cruises-victory-maine-house-district-97-race/110104

39. Bevelyn Beatty on 6/9/20 in a LGBTrump video:
"A message to White people…”

"A black liberal ain’t nothin’ but a house negro." https://www.facebook.com/LGBTrump2020/videos/274310350462193/

40. Just realized that this thread is broken. If you’re coming in on this end, you can read from the beginning here: https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1284924437272440832