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Wow! Peaceful journeys to the regal trailblazing dancer #JudithJamison, who transitioned today at age 81. She was stunning and showed us the power of dance and beauty of Black bodies in rhythmic motion! Soar Queen!

Her passing ends an already unusually awful week that started with #QuincyDelightJonesJr also leaving this realm and the death of democracy with the re-election of a demon as the next U.S. president. Sheesh.

VIA @NYTIMES: Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey Dancer of ‘Power and Radiance,’ Dies at 81

She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.

Judith Jamison, a majestic dancer who became an international star as a member of #AlvinAiley American Dance Theater and who directed the troupe for more than two decades, building it into the most successful modern dance company in the country, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 81.

Her death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, was announced by Christopher Zunner, a spokesman for the Ailey company, who said she died “after a brief illness.”

At 5-foot-10, Ms. Jamison was unusually tall for a woman in her profession. “But anyone who’s seen her onstage is convinced she’s six feet five,” the critic Deborah Jowitt wrote in The New York Times in 1976.

“I was the antithesis of the small-boned, demure dancer with a classically feminine shape.” Ms. Jamison (pronounced JAM-ih-son) wrote in her 1993 autobiography, “Dancing Spirit.”

Read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/arts/dance/judith-jamison-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Photo credits (©) Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. and Smithsonian Institution:

1.) Judith Jamison in Geoffrey Holder’s The Prodigal Prince (1967), photo by Jack Mitchell

2.) Judith Jamison in Alvin Ailey's Cry (1971), Photo by R. Faligant

3.) Judith Jamison in Alvin Ailey's Cry (1971), photo by Jack Mitchell

4.) Judith Jamison in John Butler's Facets (1972), photo by Jack Mitchell

5.) Judith Jamison photo by Andrew Eccles.

#DancingSpirit

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TODAY 6 years ago. 🙏🏾🙏🏻 On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the #Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were forcibly abducted and then disappeared in the southern town of #Iguala, #Mexico. They were abducted by #police, #military unit members and drug #traffickers. Others were killed ( 5 students, 2 soccer football players and 1 passerby ). Up to this day, NO JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED. #CorruptionKills #MexiCorruption We had a meeting in #Chicago with some visiting parents in 2014. Printed this one as part of the @instituto_grafico_chicago - organized event to raise funds for their struggle. It's based on #GonzalezCamarena's painting #LaPatria #VivaLaGráfica #SIEMPREesElPoder #printmaking #ArtIsAweapon #IGC #InstitutoGráficoDeChicago (at Iguala Guerrero Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFncv4YFvAO/?igshid=1h6qumyqqxomh

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@teens.artsconnection #mapfreecity #lovemore #artisaweapon @javedjokhai @maxilillian @a_suh_m_d @noraknoepfl @jasmine_reb14 @mogaemi @olivia_hom_22 (at Lincoln Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0o2MKVFR6llR9UNNg0hRkzBTePvlvuiWRJ26E0/?igshid=15qyp7iam9dgh

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💔#ArtIsAWeapon

"Nobody's free until everybody's free." - Fannie Lou Hamer

#OshaeSibley's murder is senseless, heartbreaking and terrifying.

Image reposted from @gala_la

Reposted from @nativesonnow Our Lives Matter.

Rest In Power O’Shae Sibley!!!

@nytimes Reported:

“O’Shae Sibley was at a Brooklyn gas station with friends late Saturday night, filling up a car and blasting music by Beyoncé when a group of men approached and told them to stop dancing, according to friends.

The men began using slurs and Mr. Sibley, 28, a gay man who was a professional dancer and choreographer, confronted them, according to his friends and a video of the altercation. The argument escalated and one man stabbed Mr. Sibley, according to the police. Otis Pena, one of Mr. Sibley’s best friends, pressed on his wound to stop the bleeding before he was taken to Maimonides Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.”

A hate crimes task force is investigating.

Justice for O’Shae Sibley!!! ✊🏾

Prayers up for O’Shae’s family and friends. 🙏🏾🤎🕊️

#JusticeForOShae #OShaeSibley #Queer #Justice #Community #HateCrime #LGBTQ #OurVoice #OurStory #OurPower #NativeSon

Thoughts penned by writer/theologian @candicebenbow

"Debate your deacon and talk about it with your trustee because I don’t want to hear it.

O’Shae, may the fiercest and flyest of the angels carry you to your rest. And may your memory be a blessing to all who knew and loved you."

#Homophobia #Transphobia

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⬛️#ArtIsAWeapon

#Artist: Danielle Mckinney @danielle_mckinney_

#Artwork: Shut Eye, 2023.

Oil on Linen

“All the women in me are tired” - #NayyirahWaheed

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"Today. I have no profound words or deep analysis. And I have no answers.

Today. I do not have bandwidth to be pastoral or to dry other people's tears or to comfort the grieving or to hold anybody up except my own self.

Today. I am disappointed and betrayed but I am not confused.

Maybe tomorrow I will have answers and analysis.

Maybe tomorrow I will pray for my enemies, most particularly those masquerading as friends and allies.

Maybe tomorrow I will get to the work and to the next.

Maybe tomorrow I will have hugs and tender words.

Maybe tomorrow I will be able to be a wounded healer.

But for today. I am sitting in the ash heap, picking my wounds.

And perhaps you can practice the ministry of Job's friends, and just sit in silence with me." - @leahdaughtry

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#mood #rest #recharge #blackisbeautiful #solitude #impressionism #painting #daniellemckinney #BlackArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BlackWomen

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Heartbroken & speechless about the sudden passing of Toriano Adarryl “Tito” Jackson, who was - along with his siblings - another huge part of my life's soundtrack.

Image 1 reposted from Tito's IG account/ other images and caption below from @motownmuseum ; guitar compilation from "Call Me KD" youtube, via @djsoulsister

Tito’s voice was often heard as the baritone of the Jackson 5, creating a foundation for their vocal harmonies. On stage he simultaneously sang, executed intricate dance steps, and played guitar. As the sole guitarist in live performances, Tito often adapted his playing to make his one single instrument cover the multiple guitar parts heard on studio recordings.

As a child, Tito used a guitar belonging to his father, Joseph Jackson, to practice playing the Blues. [After punishing him for breaking one of the strings] Tito's father gifted the guitar to him and told him to learn as many songs as he could. The family formed a performing group, the #Jackson5, with Tito and his brothers Michael, Jermaine, Marlon, and Jackie. Live performances by the group impressed Motown artists Bobby Taylor and Gladys Knight, who brought them to the attention of Berry Gordy.

After a filmed audition in July 1968, the group signed with #Motown, beginning their journey in Detroit. The Jackson 5 exploded onto the pop and R&B charts in 1969 with “I Want You Back.” Like many of the group’s earliest hits, the song was written by The Corporation, a group of Motown songwriters and producers. Diana Ross played a major role in The Jackson 5’s debut album, writing the liner notes and helping promote the group on national TV appearances.

Four hit releases followed over the next 11 months: “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” and “I’ll Be There,” setting a record for the Jackson 5 as the first act to ever have their first four singles consecutively reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. They went on to have 17 top 10 hits with the Motown label and became cultural icons with multiple world tours, a cartoon series, and memorabilia. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, and three Jackson 5 singles have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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🚨🇵🇸#CeasefireNow #StrikeForGaza December 11, 2023

The National and Islamic Forces, a coalition of major factions in Palestine, has called for an inclusive global strike that would include all aspects of life in solidarity with the Palestinian people—particularly in the Gaza Strip—who have been facing an Israeli war of genocide, displacement and ethnic cleansing...

Tomorrow 11th Dec. is a global strike day. "If the politicians do not hear us, then we can strike from economic life and daily movement and we can boycott everything, we can put pressure on them to stop supporting and blessing the massacre that is happening in Gaza. CEASEFIRE NOW!!!!" 

Caption reposted from Esraa Alshikh إسراء الشيخ @Esralshikh

🛑We started a campaign to push for a total strike worldwide on Monday 12/11/2023..

⭕️It is necessary to paralyze the movement of life and the economic wheel in all countries so that everyone feels that he is directly affected by the impact of the aggression on Gaza... 

⭕️ Start making your communications today, mobilizing and publishing ..

⭕️The strike must include the transportation, aviation, trade, banks, ports, and even schools and universities.

⭕️Work on gathering the majority of supporters and forget about those who are negligent and discouraged..

⭕️Any personal loss we suffer is worth nothing compared to the massacres taking place against people in Gaza..

Image 2 by artist @heyimsakina 

Images 3 & 4 and caption by artist @shirien.creates: ...I got news that my friend Refaat had been assassinated by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza, alongside his brother, sister, and four of her children. There is confirmation that he had received a threatening phone call by the Israeli intelligence saying they have located him.

Refaat was a well-known and loved Palestinian author, poet, and English literature professor. He was also a founder of @we_are_not_numbers. Refaat taught hundreds of students in Gaza English as a way to help them tell their stories and connect Palestinian liberation with the liberation struggles of Black, Indigenous and colonized people around the world.

I met Refaat in 2014 during his book tour for “Gaza Writes Back,” a collection of stories from Gaza youth living under siege. Refaat taught me how important art and storytelling are as part of our resistance as Palestinians. His work profoundly impacted and inspired me.

Even under Israel’s relentless airstrikes, Refaat hopped around Gaza to find internet to be able to stay connected with his students, his friends abroad, and to take interviews to shed light about the atrocities happening in Gaza. He bravely spoke up knowing that Israel was systematically targeting journalists, academics, creatives, and all those exposing the truth. His home was already targeted and bombed in October, but he survived. This time, he didn’t. 

It’s hard to believe Refaat is no longer with us. It is a painful loss. His intellect, his love for Palestine, his passion to make life better for Gaza, his beautiful care for his people, and his great sense of humor will be missed. But in his short time on earth, Refaat left a lasting legacy on all Palestinians and on the world.

Refaat, in one of his last interviews, said expo markers are all he had as his resistance. But he would never give up, and he wouldn’t want any of us to give up. As he rests, we will continue to tell our stories, to demand an end to the genocide and siege in Gaza, and to keep struggling until Palestine is free.

"Writing is a testimony…a memory that outlives any human experience. We lived for a reason, to tell the tales of loss, of survival, and of hope." - Dr. Refaat Alareer   

Images 5-8 and caption by @ajplus Israel has bombed the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in occupied Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israel has damaged or destroyed over 100 cultural heritage sites in Gaza, along with thousands of historical documents.

Associate Producer: Katherine Conner

Image 9 from @npr The United States vetoed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations Security Council on Friday.

The Security Council vote on the resolution, backed by Arab states, had 13 in favor and one — the U.S. — against, while the United Kingdom abstained.

#News #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Palestinian #Mosque #History #GazaGeniocide #Gaza

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💜☂️🎶#ArtIsAWeapon Forty years ago today (June 25, 1984), @prince released this musical masterpiece, and nothing was ever the same...

Purple Rain Album Tracklist

Side one:

1. "Let's Go Crazy"

2. "Take Me with U"

3. "The Beautiful Ones"

4. "Computer Blue "

5. "Darling Nikki" 4:14

Side two

1. "When Doves Cry"

2. "I Would Die 4 U"

3. "Baby I'm a Star"

4. "Purple Rain"

#PurpleRain #PurpleRain40 #Prince #Prince4Ever #BlackMusicMonth #Soundtrack #GOAT

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🇵🇸 #ArtIsAWeapon #CeasefireNow Image and caption reposted from @shirien.creates As of today, over 13,000 #Palestinians have been killed in #Gaza, including 5,500 children, since October 7th. This morning, another hospital in Gaza was bombed by Israeli forces, killing a dozen more Palestinians. Those killed and targeted in Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza’s hospitals have been the most vulnerable: newborns, pregnant women, cancer patients, elders, and disabled Palestinians. All of these people would be alive today had there been a ceasefire yesterday.

For 2 weeks, the Biden admin has been saying that they want to work towards a “humanitarian pause” in which there will be a short time frame in which the bombing of Gaza subsides to allow civilians to find safety. The Israeli govt has not agreed and even if they did, it is not enough when hospitals and facilities cannot function due to the blockaded flow of water, electricity, medications, and fuel, and the continued destruction of essential infrastructure.

A humanitarian pause is not enough as we are witnessing the televised suffering of premature babies who had to be taken off incubators that could not be kept running due to lack of electricity. Tens of thousands of Palestinian women are pregnant and about to give birth, and are in grave danger of staggering numbers of maternal and infant mortality in coming weeks.

While the Biden administration refuses to call for a ceasefire, the masses across the country are rising up to demand not only a ceasefire, but the end of the siege on Gaza and a #FreePalestine. @coribush’s ceasefire bill went from 13 to 40 signers because of the pressure that our representatives are feeling from their constituents. From the Bay Bridge to Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, the people are shutting it down. Mass boycotts are impacting corporations that support Israel’s ethnic cleansing. The people have made it clear: no more business as usual.

Continue calling and writing your reps. Keep hitting the streets, boycotting, and disrupting the comforts of our complicit society. Check out ceasefiretoday.com for action items. Your acts of solidarity make a difference. May we continue to rise up...

Image 2 & caption reposted from @ernestoyerena NO GENOCIDE IN GAZA! CEASEFIRE NOW! FREE PALESTINE! Download file for free and print at home to make your own posters for any protest or demonstration you plan on going to. Link in bio to download file. Thanks -e #freepalestine #freegaza

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🇵🇸✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon Sunday #shoutout to the #artists and #activists in NYC and around the world who responded to the March 2 global day of action demanding an end to the American-funded genocide in #Gaza

Speaking prayers for peace and protection to the Palestinian people!

#CeasefireNow

🎥 and caption reposted from @peoplesforumnyc 🇵🇸MILLIONS TOOK TO THE STREETS MARCH 2 FOR #PALESTINE!

🌐 From Havana to Tunis, Caracas to Tokyo, Guinea Bissau to NYC, the world stands with the people of Palestine and demand a ceasefire, an end to the siege on Gaza, and an end to the genocide!

⚡️We aren’t going anywhere! We will be in the streets every single day until Palestine is FREE!

#shutitdown4palestine ...

📢🚨 THE MOVEMENT FOR PALESTINE IS STILL GROWING! Join us for a volunteer session and art build this Monday!

We will discuss the current situation on the ground and prepare outreach materials for the week ahead! RSVP now!

🗓️ Monday, March 4, 6:30 PM

📍The People’s Forum

🔗 RSVP: https://peoplesforum.org/mar4

#ShutItDown4Palestine

Reposted from @againstapartheid.art On March 2, millions across the world will march for Gaza! As artists and cultural workers, we must join this global call and join the momentum that is building against the brutal genocide in Gaza.

Gaza is facing famine, its hospitals are besieged, threats of ground invasion in Rafah loom near, and Israel continues its onslaught on the over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 

The mass movement for Palestine has led to the isolation of the US and Israel on the world stage. With growing internal divisions and heightened political pressure, the Zionists and imperialists are backed into a corner. Our mobilizations in this moment can be more decisive than ever, and we must show our full strength now to ensure a lasting ceasefire and an end to the siege on Gaza.

Act now, mobilize in your communities and institutions, everyone must be on the streets March 2nd! All out for #Rafah! All out for Gaza! Stop the genocide!

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She DID that!

Video reposted from @stanceelements Saumya’s interpretation of Water was magical! ✨ Dancer @saumyakamble_official 🇮🇳 #Amapiano with a mix of Indian flavor

All the battle rounds are freestyle, dancers do not know what song the DJ will play

📍 @redbulldance

💿 @thespindoclive

🎶 @tyla #redbulldanceyourstyle #water #Dancer #HipHop #Breakdance #BGirl

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Peaceful journeys #DJClarkKent, and thank you for all the joyful musical moments you gave us.

Sending love and condolences to his family, friends, fans and his @theoriginals_nyc squad @richmedina @dnice @stretcharmstrong @djtonytouch

Reposted from @djclarkkent It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of the beloved Rodolfo A. Franklin, known to the world as DJ Clark Kent. Clark passed away Thursday evening surrounded by his devoted wife Kesha, daughter Kabriah and son Antonio.

Clark quietly and valiantly fought a three year battle with Colon Cancer, while continuing to share his gifts with the world. The family is grateful for everyone’s love, support and prayers during this time and ask for privacy as they process this immense loss.

#DJRoyalty

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This cover photo of @wnba stars Angel Reese @angelreese5 and A'ja Wilson @aja22wilson surrounded by little girls is fantastic! #CoverGirls

Read cover story:

https://www.wsj.com/sports/basketball/wnba-womens-basketball-aja-wilson-angel-reese-5737cbfc

Image and caption reposted from @wsjmag @wsj (Disclaimer: I do not endorse or support publications owned by Rupert Murdoch)

The @wnba is our 2024 Sports Innovator!⁠

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At a recent game in Las Vegas, the all-ages throng was clad mostly in black or red jerseys of the Aces, the WNBA champions two years running. But some wore their allegiance to Chicago forward @angelreese5, a 22-year- old rookie from Louisiana State whose long eyelashes earned her the nickname “Bayou Barbie” and whose voracious rebounding made her an All-Star in her first pro season.⁠

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The Aces boast the highest-scoring player in the league, the smooth-as-satin @aja22wilson, 28, whose devastating efficiency made her the first unanimous league MVP since the Houston Comets’ Cynthia Cooper in the WNBA’s 1997 inaugural season. “Probably three or four years ago, I’d be like, ‘Women’s basketball?’ ” Aces season-ticket holder Pablo Nomakchteinsky says, wrinkling his nose. “But now I’d rather watch the women than the men.”⁠

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A surge of newcomer fans to “the W,” as insiders call it, has driven up average attendance nearly 50 percent year-over-year and sent viewership on ESPN networks soaring 170 percent. Go to the link in bio to read more about how the team owners, players and league leaders plotting for women’s basketball to go supernova got their wish this year.

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���️: @bachscore⁠

📷️: @stef_mitchell⁠

Stylist: @sydneyrosethomas⁠

Hair: @nikkinelms⁠

Makeup: @yad1m⁠

Manicure: @mzsgriffin⁠

Set Design: #BillBittman @ B.A.D., LLC⁠

Production: @campproductions⁠

Talent: @specialprojectsmedia

#BayouBarbie #BlackExcellence #WNBA

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#Musician: Oscar Peterson @oscarpetersonofficial

#Song: ‘My One and Only Love’

#Animation: @shilstone_arts (📽 reposted)

#OscarPeterson #LivePerformance #Jazz #MusicIsLife #ArtIsAWeapon

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September 15, 2024 @nytmag cover story of Ezra Edelman's nine-hour documentary about Prince we may never be allowed to see, photo by @jurgenreisch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html

Images and caption reposted from @nytmag / @nytimes A monumental new documentary about Prince is sometimes uncomfortable to watch, but transforms our understanding of the music icon. It presents a deeply flawed person while still granting him his greatness and his dignity, exploring the defining traumas of Prince's childhood and how they informed his life and work. It's also now painfully clear it will most likely never air. When a court divided Prince's assets in 2022 after years of legal battles, the new executors objected to the project, entering into a protracted battle with Netflix to prevent its release. 

Sasha Weiss, a deputy editor at @nytmag, is one of a small number of people to have seen the Prince film. Dive inside the documentary and read what we know about what it could reveal at the link in our bio.

What's in these photos: Prince in 1983. Photo by Allen Beaulieu

At one of Prince's first public shows as a solo artist at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis, January 1979, by @greghelgeson_photography

Prince and the Revolution during the "Purple Rain" era. Photo by @nancybundt_nordicimages 

Prince and Mayte Garcia at home in 1999, by Steve Parke

In one of Edelman's editing rooms, a timeline of Prince's life. Photo by @nailaruechel

A photograph of a young Prince in 1977 by @robertwhitmanphoto, onscreen in one of Edelman's editing rooms in January. Photo by @nailaruechel

Performing in 1995. Ilan Dickson/Redferns, via Getty Images

Prince playing basketball, a lifelong passion, in 1999, by Steve Parke 

The Prince We Never Knew www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html

#PrinceDocumentary #PrinceMovie

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#NeverForget #EricGarner, who ws murdered by the NYPD ten years ago...

#Artist: @hubertdnealjr

#Artwork: Eric Garner II

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Reposted from @apnews ‘I can’t breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death...

Ten years after Eric Garner ’s death at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry, loved ones on Wednesday remembered his life and legacy.

“I want people to remember him and remember that he was the one that helped get laws changed, that helped implement laws, who was the sacrificial lamb and that, because of him, others have benefited,” said Gwen Carr, Garner’s mother, at the start of a march on Staten Island, the borough where her son died.

A few dozen Garner family members, friends, and activist supporters marched to a park that sits between the sidewalk where he was killed and a street that now bears his name — Eric Garner Way. As thousands of protesters have done over the past decade, they repeated some of his last words: “I can’t breathe.”

Bystander video showed Garner gasping the phrase on July 17, 2014, while locked in a police chokehold. The recording spurred Black Lives Matter protests in New York and across the country. More demonstrations followed weeks later when Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9, 2014.

Six years later, George Floyd was recorded uttering the exact same words as he begged for air while a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck, killing him and sparking a new wave of mass protests.

Carr noted that since her son’s death, there has been an increase in the use of video cameras by police. In 2020, New York lawmakers passed the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act, which removed legal ambiguities in official police conduct by creating a felony crime of strangulation by peace officers that causes injury or death. Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who restrained Garner, was fired in 2019, but never charged with a crime.

Read more:

https://apnews.com/article/eric-garner-death-anniversary-chokehold-dca9708c2dee062f95f35483e1e2cfed?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

#EricGarner #ICantBreathe #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality