The actress spoke passionately to several members of the National Guard who were at the scene, asking them march to the side protesters and telling them to “be a change” in the fight against racial injustice following the assassination of George Floyd.

“We have people here who need your help,” Palmer said in a video NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz tweets. “This is a time when you stand together with the community, with society, to stop government oppression. Period. You need it, so come with us.”

“Marry with us, they’ll send you a huge message,” Palmer said, “You’re a protector. If you should patrol us, then come with us.”

Another protester is heard begging the guards to kneel, and they do so.

“At 26, I watch and witness a physical revolt, and it’s a revolt on a scale that I wasn’t sure I’d ever see. Those who may not look close enough, all they’ll see is a robbery or people who aren’t really interested in the movement, or anarchy without movement. But what I see is a society that reacts to the oppressor about how the oppressor reacted to us, “Palmer said.

“Racism is what the country is built on: slavery, systematic oppression, then voter oppression, women oppression, a bad education system, so you are deliberately uninformed, financial oppression,” she continued. “Human beings can only take that much. Americans need government reform that requires laws and new laws that give birth to a future for our children. We deserve a new system because the old one was created to oppress us.”