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Cathedral Park, Portland Oregon.
September2020
Kodak Portra 400, Minolta SRT101.
Processed and printed with sloppy border by Blue Moon Camera, Portland.
Members of Black Lives Matter Greater NY and allies held a protest rally in Times Square on June 4, 2019 demanding justice for Eric Garner as Daniel Pantaleo’s trial resumes on June 5. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Silver Spring, Maryland, January 24, 2014. The Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition hosted an hour long rally and brief march in downtown Silver Spring to protest ongoing police violence without accountability, most egregiously against people of color. This action was in solidarity with hundreds of similar events nationwide celebrating the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. I counted around fifty participants during the hour I was on the street. Interactions between the heavily armed, bullet-proof vested Montgomery County Police and the demonstrators were generally respectful and peaceful.
NYC | 2014
A picture I took at the Eric Garner protest in New York. I'll be posting some more pictures on my Tumblr so be sure to check them out.
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How much is a black man's life in America really worth?
Originally posted after the death of Eric Garner who was illegally selling single cigarettes for a dollar apiece on the streets of New York City. For this he died. It didn't have to happen!
And now it has happened again, this time to George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on May 25, 2020. A police officer, who has now been charged with murder, put his knee on Floyd's neck, while handcuffed and face down on the ground, for almost nine minutes until Floyd died. The reason? A man fitting Floyd's description was said to have paid for cigarettes with a counterfeit $20.00 bill. In his last dying moments Floyd, helpless and handcuffed on the ground, was heard begging the four police officers with those same words, "I can't breathe."
This poster, which was created after the death of Eric Garner six years earlier in New York City, was photographed with my Olympus XZ-1 on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City.
From the wiki:
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in a headlock or chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. NYPD policy prohibits the use of chokeholds. The officer denied choking Garner, but the New York City Medical Examiner's Office report stated "Cause of Death: Compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police" and "Contributing Conditions: Acute and chronic bronchial asthma; Obesity; Hypertensive cardiovascular disease." In addition, the filming of the incident brought police brutality into wider public awareness.[1]
NYPD officers approached Garner on suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. After Garner told the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not selling cigarettes, the officers went to arrest Garner. When officer Daniel Pantaleo tried to take Garner's wrist behind his back, Garner pulled his arms away. Pantaleo then put his arm around Garner's neck and took him down onto the ground. After Pantaleo removed his arm from Garner's neck, he pushed the side of Garner's face into the ground while four officers moved to restrain Garner, who repeated "I can't breathe" eleven times while lying facedown on the sidewalk. After Garner lost consciousness, officers turned him onto his side to ease his breathing. Garner remained lying on the sidewalk for seven minutes while the officers waited for an ambulance to arrive. The officers and emergency medical technicians did not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Garner at the scene; according to a spokesman for the PBA, this was because they believed that Garner was breathing and that it would be improper to perform CPR on someone who was still breathing. He was pronounced dead at the hospital approximately one hour later.
The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide. According to the medical examiner's definition, a homicide is a death caused by the intentional actions of another person or persons, which is not necessarily an intentional death or a criminal death. On December 3, 2014, the Richmond County grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo. On that day, the United States Department of Justice announced it would conduct an independent investigation. The event stirred public protests and rallies, with charges of police brutality made by protesters. By December 28, 2014, at least 50 demonstrations had been held nationwide specifically for Garner while hundreds of demonstrations against general police brutality counted Garner as a focal point. On July 13, 2015, an out-of-court settlement was announced in which the City of New York would pay the Garner family $5.9 million.
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I Can't Breathe - Torn poster on old brick wall, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. 2015. "I can't breathe" is a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase originates from the last words of Eric Garner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by a NYPD officer.
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North Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday April 19, 2015. Around one hundred activists associated with Justice League NYC and other civil rights groups marched down historic US Route 1 through Baltimore as participants in an event named #MARCH2JUSTICE. On April 13, 2015, the activists gathered in New York CIty to embark on a 250 mile march through five states to culminate in a rally on the National Mall near the US Capitol on Tuesday, April 21. The marchers intend to deliver to Congress a "Justice Package" of criminal justice reform legislation and other demands to end police brutality and empower youth.
Postscript 1. As the march moved through the streets of Baltimore young Freddie Gray lie nearby in a hospital bed, his life slipping away, yet another young African-American victim of police violence. Freddie passed the next day. Angry crowds are filling the streets in protest. Hopefully the anger will be expressed non-violently and directed where it belongs; against the corrupt and ineffectual city and state government, the notoriously brutal Baltimore Police department and the corporate capitalist thieves who plundered, poisoned and abandoned this city. But this was not to be.
On Saturday April 25 after a peaceful daytime march by a diverse crowd of over 2,000 social justice activists and supporters, rioting and looting erupted in the evening, provoking a predictably violent police response.
Sunday was mostly chill and respectful of the Gray family's call for peace and justice for Freddie as the Baltimore Police Department's investigation of his killing by BPD officers went forward.
What actually happened here? A young African-American man was arrested by the police for no apparent good reason and ended up dead from spinal cord injury sustained while in custody. Freddie was manhandled by cops, subjected to a paddy wagon ride intended to injure him further and denied the prompt medical care he begged for.
On Monday April 27 after Freddie Gray's funeral, all hell broke loose. In "Charm City" there are now numerous spectacular arson fires, looting of business establishments large and small, occasional gunplay, nearly olympic feats of hateful projectile hurling against the police, burning of police and civilian automobiles, tear gas and other chemical weapon retaliation by cops and other assorted mayhem. They don't call this place Mobtown for nothing and, tragically, the violence is as American as cherry pie. It should be noted that dozens of members of the faith community including the Nation Of Islam and other good samaritans were on the street all night trying to wage peace. The mayor has announced a 10 PM to 5AM curfew for Tuesday and beyond. Let's hope that the violence is over.
Postscript 2. On May 1, 2015 five of the six police officers who killed Freddie Gray were charged with homicide. The driver of the police paddy wagon was charged with second degree "depraved heart" murder, meaning that the State asserts that the killing was intentional. Four of the other five officers are charged with manslaughter and all were charged variously with other violations including false imprisonment and misconduct in office,
Peaceful, passionate, energised, noisy, good humoured musical and there was some break dance too.
A big, turnout, predominantly of the young. This is galvanising a generation. 99.9% wore masks throughout.
#blacklivesmattersheffield #blacklivesmatter
Album: www.flickr.com/photos/shefftim/albums/72157714608760502
The Struggle continues... Remembering MLK today, how far we've come and how much further we still need to go.
Images from the "Justice For All" March in Washington, DC on Saturday, December 13th, 2014.
This event was conceived and executed by the Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network on behalf of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Akai Gurley and all of the others killed by the police in this country.
Full set of Justice For All March photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/jimkiernan/sets/72157649757466322/
Peaceful, passionate, energised, noisy, good humoured musical and there was some break dance too.
A big, turnout, predominantly of the young. This is galvanising a generation. 99.9% wore masks throughout.
#blacklivesmattersheffield #blacklivesmatter
Album: www.flickr.com/photos/shefftim/albums/72157714608760502