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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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First Production

First Production

The first jerseys actually produced were in December of 2014 — Eric Garner, Mike Brown, and Trayvon Martin. While the Brown jersey was made according to the earlier mock-up art,...
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Oscar Grant & Trayvon Martin Revision

Oscar Grant & Trayvon Martin Revision

The Oscar Grant jersey is the first football jersey in the series. Silver and Black in honor of his hometown Oakland Raiders. The Trayvon Martin jersey was revised in the...
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Eric Garner

Eric Garner

The Eric Garner jersey was the third in the series. The killings of Eric Garner followed by Mike Brown marked the moment this project becoming a series and not a one-off idea....
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Sean Bell

Sean Bell

The Sean Bell jersey was next. Chronologically Sean Bell’s killing happened much earlier, but the jersey design happened next. The 50 stars on the side of the jersey represent the 50...
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Mike Brown

Mike Brown

The killing of Mike Brown, though no footage exists, is one of the most painful to think about. The subsequent protests in Ferguson, Mo. and the #BlackLivesMatter campaign have been inspiring...
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