Po-lice Misconduct Misprint (pink)

Artist Patrick Martinez (American, born 1980)

Date2016

MediumPigment print on paper

DimensionsUnframed: 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm) Framed: 15 x 21 1/4 in. (38.1 x 54 cm)

ClassificationsPrintmaking

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment

Object number2017.4.4

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

Top: The shooting of Laquan McDonald occurred on October 20, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, when McDonald—a 17-year-old black male armed with a 3-inch (76 mm) knife—was shot 16 times in 13 seconds.

Middle: Oscar Grant III was fatally shot by BART Policeofficer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States, in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. Officer Johannes Mehserle and another officer were restraining Grant, who was lying face down and handcuffed. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant once in the back. Grant was unarmed; he was pronounced dead the next morning at Highland Hospital in Oakland.

Bottom: A group of NY cops arresting a New York man. The arrest was being recorded by bystanders and the cops were recording the bystanders in retaliation.

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On view

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