News

Media

UNARMED was featured yesterday on ABC 7 Eyewitness News, NY and the day before that on News12 Brooklyn. Design blog Subtraction.com tells a visual story of the series. Bobbito Garcia interviewed Raafi Rivero on Stretch...
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Flowers

Over the weekend there was another police killing of a black man caught on video in Atlanta, GA, and increased scrutiny over several hangings of black men across the country....
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Flatbush Installation

Flatbush Installation

The installation started with a phone call. The homie Michael Hastings-Black had known about UNARMED for years and the moment demanded action. His friend Trevor MacDermid has a business making large-scale prints. The three of...
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Breonna Taylor

Breonna Taylor

Louisville Police used a “no-knock” warrant to enter Breonna Taylor’s home in search of two people who, it turns out, were already in police custody. Officers fired more than 20...
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George Floyd

George Floyd

Believe me, the last thing I’d rather be doing right now is designing another jersey and posting it on the internet. I started this project in 2013. That’s a lot...
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Terence Crutcher

Video confirms that Terence Crutcher had his hands above his head at the time of his shooting.
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Alton Sterling

Witnesses say that Sterling was armed, but that he was not holding or touching his gun during his interaction with police. Further, Louisiana is an open carry state. At the...
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Laquan McDonald

Laquan McDonald, though wielding a knife, was moving away from police officers when one of them fired 16 shots at him. Most of them after he was already on the...
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Samuel Dubose

Samuel Dubose

Samuel Dubose was stopped by a University of Cincinnati police officer for a traffic violation. During the brief encounter he was shot in the head.
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Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland was driving her vehicle to a new job in Prairie View, Texas when a routine traffic stop led to her being jailed. She subsequently died while in custody...
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Not Forgotten

Not Forgotten

Freddie Gray and Walter Scott were not forgotten. And I continue to learn the stories of others such as Antonio Zambrano-Moses. I had hoped to take a hiatus from the...
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On film

On film

The jerseys were used as costumes in my upcoming feature film, 72 Hours: a Brooklyn Love Story? One of the characters wears an UNARMED jersey in every scene that he appears.  
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