4.28.15 Baltimore Police in riot gear.
Dec 4th, 2015. Following the previous day's announcement that no NYPD Officer would be indicted following the death in police custody of Eric Garner, a Staten Island resident, an organized Black Lives Matter protest against the decision broke out in lower Manhattan.
Dec. 3rd, 2015. Protests break out in NYC following the Staten Island grand jury's decision to clear NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo from all potential charges in the death of Eric Garner.
Dec 4th, 2015. Black Lives Matter protesters stop traffic by walking uptown through the Avenues.
Dec 4th, 2015. NYC. Black Lives Matter protesters take to the streets following the verdict on Officer Daniel Pantaleo following his acquittal from all charges in the death of Eric Garner.
Dec 4th, 2015. NYPD Officers in Union Square, Manhattan.
Millions March NYC. Saturday December 13th, 2014. A protestor uses a megaphone after the march rallied at Foley Square.
Millions March NYC. Saturday December 13th, 2014. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in NYC after the Officer involved in the death of Eric Garner was not indicted. The initial march went from Washington Square Park uptown, turned back downtown towards the Police Headquarters where it concluded. A smaller group of thousands then marched over the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The day after Freddie Gray's funeral. Marches occurred all day throughout the downtown neighborhoods.
Baltimore 4.28.15 Kids viewing the inside of the burned CVS in downtown Baltimore.
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Baltimore 4.28.15 Police and National Guardsmen continue to hold a line.
Union Square, NYC. A "die in" for four and a half minutes to commemorate the one year anniversary of the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson.
July 9th 2016, Black Lives Matter protest in NYC. Demonstrations occurred over various nights from July 7th to July 9th after the death of Alton Sterling, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philandro Castile, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota after both were fatally shot by police officers within 48 hours of each other. This march was dedicated to the most recent death of Delrawn Small, of New York City, who was fatally shot while unarmed by an off-duty NYPD officer during a traffic altercation.
Times Square. July 9th, 2016, Black Lives Matter protest in NYC. Demonstrations occurred over various nights from July 7th to July 9th after the death of Alton Sterling, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philandro Castile, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota after both were fatally shot by police officers within 48 hours of each other. This march was dedicated to the most recent death of Delrawn Small, of New York City, who was fatally shot while unarmed by an off-duty NYPD officer during a traffic altercation.
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An ongoing photo series of the Black Lives Matter movement organized protests in New York City and Baltimore.
America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and the largest prison population in the world. There are 2.4 million people behind bars. The Guardian's The Counted reports 1,145 people have been killed by police in 2015 alone in the United States. A disproportionate number have been black.
These photographs are from protests in New York City, as well as Baltimore, ranging from December of 2014 to the present. Images taken in Baltimore are from April 28th, 2015.
In our current time of media saturation, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, create a very short lived reactionary cycle. Each protest I’ve been to has come after a sensational event caught on camera. The chokehold of Eric Garner, the death of Freddie Grey, the shooting of Tamir Rice, the dashboard video of Sandra Bland, and of course the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death, have all incited protests. Collectively, they have driven a nation to once again rise up against an onslaught of unjustified deaths, systemic racism, a corrupt financial system, and against militarized police forces.