Chelsea Manning is back in the Big Apple sharing the first photo of herself since she attempted suicide in jail.<\/p>\n
Hi all been staying safe inside a lot, Manning wrote on Twitter, flashing a peace sign alongside a friend in the street in Brooklyn as they say they were delivering personal protective gear to some of those most in need.<\/p>\n
It was the first time the Army intelligence officer-turned-leaker had been seen since she tried to kill herself in Virginias Alexandria Detention Center last month, where she was being held for refusing to testify to a grand jury about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The next day, a federal district judge ordered her released, NPR noted at the time.<\/p>\n
Manning, 32, was wearing a sky blue top, mask and gloves as she posed for her Brooklyn photo late Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Doing what i can to help collect & distribute PPE to some of those most in need, she wrote. Thankful for all your wonderful love and support! we will get through this together, she said, with a string of emojis, including a heart, a rainbow and a masked face.<\/p>\n
She was photographed with Janus Rose, a senior editor at Motherboard and a Post-Apocalyptic Delivery Dyke, according to Roses Twitter profile.<\/p>\n
THANK YOU @xychelsea for donating PPE to mutual aid volunteers in brooklyn!! its pretty bleak out there and im so relieved to see her safe and out of jail, Rose wrote.<\/p>\n
Fun fact: i teased @xychelsea relentlessly when she bought boxes of masks and nitrile gloves in 2017 i now humbly rescind my remarks and recognize our Quarantine Prepper Queen, Rose added.<\/p>\n
Manning previously spent seven years in military prison for leaking thousands of sensitive and classified documents to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n
President Barack Obama commuted the remainder of her 35-year sentence just days before handing the White House over to President Trump.<\/p>\n
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