Police Brutality Exhibition
The exhibits in this presentation show a pattern of abuse and the same narrative repeatedly and successfully used by police officers to continue their violence against people of color. —Police brutality is the excessive and/or unnecessary use of for against civilians. In modern day times, police brutality is still a constant issue for people of color. The effect of police brutality can have a devastating impact on the existence of people of color. Police brutality is just one symptom of this country’s larger structural racism, which segregates our schools and cities, increases the poverty and unemployment rates for people of color, has psychological consequences for families and young people, and decreases our life expectancy. African-Americans disproportionately bear the brunt of this structural racism.
This graffiti art depicts an angry Elmer Fudd, holding a shotgun, standing next to a sign that reads “NEGRO SEASON.” Elmer Fudd and the sign is outlined in black spray paint, over a beige brick wall. Elmer Fudd is wearing a police uniform which includes a police hat.
African-Americans are the primary targets of law-enforcement profiling and violence. To me, this art represents how people of color feel regarding police brutality. Police brutality towards people of color have become as common as a hunter, hunting to kill his prey. Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing it with the intent of doing so. People of color are being sought out and killed by the police for little to no reason at all. Hunting to kill a generation of people who is looked upon as inhuman. People of color and equality.
Protesters gather to demand an end to police brutality and mass incarceration of people of color. The people protesting are from different ethnic backgrounds. Some protesters are holding a orange rectangular sign which has a red stop sign on it that reads “Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a generation must be STOPPED!”
October 22nd is National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. October 22 is a day when those who have suffered police brutality have a platform to speak about the devastation of this issue. Protesters have gathered from Oakland to Washington D.C. for the last 20 years to bring awareness to this form of institutional racism. Some of the most high-profile cases of institutional racism and brutality have come from the New York Police Department. Those cases have resulted in massive lawsuits against the city.
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