Po-lice Misconduct Misprint (natural blue)
Artist
Patrick Martinez
(American, born 1980)
Date2016
MediumPigment print on paper
DimensionsFramed: 15 x 21 1/4 in. (38.1 x 54 cm)
Unframed: 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
ClassificationsPrintmaking
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment
Object number2017.4.3
Label TextMartinez's Pol-lice Misconduct series appropriate "Pee-Chee" folders to memorialize actual victims of police violence.Top: School police officer in a Columbia classroom grabbing an African-American student by the neck, flipping her backward as she sat at her desk, then dragging and throwing her across the floor. [New York Times]
Middle: NYPD Chief pulls hair of woman, already placed in handcuffs.
Bottom: November 18, 2011- After asking the protesters to leave, UC Davis university police pepper sprayed a group of demonstrators as they were seated on a paved path in the campus quad.
Status
On viewLocation
- Beckman Hall (1 University Drive), Floor 4, 400 Corridor
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