Po-lice Misconduct Misprint (mint)

Artist Patrick Martinez (American, born 1980)

Date2016

MediumPigment print on paper

Dimensions9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)

ClassificationsPrintmaking

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment

Object number2017.4.1

Label TextMartinez's Pol-lice Misconduct series appropriate "Pee-Chee" folders to memorialize actual victims of police violence.

Top: Jonathan Santellana - was shot and killed by police.

Middle: Rey Garza said he identified himself as a police officer and asked the driver, 17-year-old Jonathan Santellana for identification and ordered him to step out of the vehicle. The officer said the teen refused, so Garza opened the door of the 1996 Ford Taurus. But a teenage girl who was with Santellana said Garza did not identify himself as a police officer as he approached with his gun drawn, and she said the teens believed they were being robbed and tried to escape. Santellana attempted to drive out of the parking lot in reverse, pinning Garza between the Taurus and vehicle parked beside it. Garza opened fire multiple times, and the vehicle sped through the parking lot and struck a curb, which caused it to go briefly airborne. Santellana got out of the wrecked car and collapsed, and he later died from a gunshot wound to the back.

Bottom: Alexandra Svoboda - was tackled by police during a protest and suffered a dislocated knee.

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On view

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