Browse Items (13 total)
Sort by:
-
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 25 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is an image of the Memorial Fence, the White House and the Washington Monument. Behind it there are a bike, chairs, coolers, and bags that are in front of the fence. There are people in front of the fence and one is holding a poster protesting. Multiple posters read “Stop Killing Us” “Pay A Black Woman Today” “Black Lives Matter” “Resist “We are the Majority” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Trump Is A Danger To Us All” “White silence Fuels Domestic [illegible]” “#DefundMPD EndSARS” “Fuck Your Fence” “Join Campaign Zero” “#Say Their Names” “Jesus knows Black Lives Need More Than Thoughts & Prayers” ”End Qualified Immunity” and a drawn image of Colin Kaepernick.
There is a poster that reads “Confronta a Tu Tio Racista y a Tu Racismo Oculto Black Lives Matter” which translates to “Confront your Racist Uncle and your Hidden Racism Black Lives Matter”.
There’s a drawn image on a white tapestry of a Black woman holding a black child and the child’s shirt reads “Don’t [sic] Shoot” underneath the image reads “Save Our Children [;] Hold Our Government There are written statements all over the tapestry that reads “We will do better – White people [;] You deserve better.” “Breonna Taylor deserved better” “Protect Black Women” “Hold Our Government Accountable” “Please trace your hand” “matter is the minimum” and there are hands that have been traced on the tapestry.
There is a poster with a black and white drawn image of Natasha McKenna that reads “Say Her Name Natasha McKenna”.
There is a faded poster that reads “YOU’RE FIRED *We stand w/ Anderson Cooper #Obese Turtle”.
There is a poster that reads “We are all in this together Rhinos [;] No Human Being is Illegal I STAND with DREAMERS [;] Climate Change is Real Take Action” and on the last statement there is a drawing of the Earth with melting ice on it.
There is a poster that reads “Raise A Glass to Freedom!” and they used red, white, and blue as the colors of the statement. Underneath it is a drawing of a black power fist and also reads “#Enough” “#BLM”.
Another poster reads “Black + Latino Lives Matter – Emily Chandler Kasi Lopez Jaden Stubbs 2020” “#SaveOurChildren” “We Demand JUSTICE” “FUCK 12”.
-
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 24 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
Multiple posters read “It’s a Beautiful Day to Destroy White Supremacy” and then there is a poster underneath with stripes going down in the colors red, white, and blue and it reads “Elections Belong To We The People”. A white poster reads “Defund The Police Liberate From Bondage The Revolution Is Now” “MPD Kills Unarmed Black DC Residents & Protects Armed Fascists”
Some posters have two black power fists that reads, “Black Joy Matters” and there are multiple different colors as the background of the poster. Underneath this is a poster from left to right that reads “We Will Prevail [;] Don’t Hold Your Vote… We said BLACK LIVES MATTER [;] We know ALL LIVES MATTER [;] Never said Only BLACK LIVES MATTER [;] But If You Hold Your Vote None Of This Matters [;] We Will Prevail” and this poster has drawn hearts scattered throughout the poster. There is a poster with a rainbow background that reads “Black Lives Matter”
A poster has different languages which are in Spanish, English, French, Swahili, Hebrew, and Russian respectively and it reads “Mierda 12 [;] Fuck 12 [;] Merde 12 [;] Kutomba 12 [;] זִיוּן 12 [;] блядь 12”
-
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 18 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There are two large white tapestry’s that reads “Abolition Now” and “Fuck White Supremacy.” There is a large “X” that crosses out “white supremacy”.
Multiple posters read “Protect Black Womxn Love Respect Uplift” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Say Their Names” “Reclaiming our...time. history. Choices. SPACE.”
There is a poster that reads “Black Trans Lives Matter” and the poster has the colors of the trans flag which are blue, pink, and white.
A white poster reads “Hey Donald! G.T.F.O. of Washington, D.C.! @ejbjazz [illegible]”
On a concrete roadblock with the Memorial Fence and Washington Monument in the background, it reads “Fake Police Abuse People For Real Here (Not An Act)”
A poster reads “school house edu and there is a drawing of a blackboard that is in front of didn’t colored circles that are supposed to represent ‘people’. This blackboard reads “’I’m tired of waiting for the day my racial justice lesson can be a history lesson...not a current events lesson. BLACK LIVES MATTER!’”
On the ground, multiple statements are written in chalk and it reads “This Is What Democracy Looks Like!” which is encircled in a speech bubble. Underneath this reads “Black Trans Lives Matter” and “BLM” as well as a drawing of a heart.
There is a crosswalk that has names of those who were victims of police brutality and on the white stripes of the crosswalk reads “MPD Murdered Karon Hylton Deon Kay Breonna Taylor [;] Protect Black Women [;] Fuck 12 Fire Newsham Fire Bagshaw” and on a poster that is hanging on a fence near this crosswalk reads “Fuck My Privilege Black Lives Matter”
-
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 15 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a cardboard poster that reads “Justice for Karon Hylton” and “Fuck 12 (And Muriel Bowser) (Too)” Inside of the words “Fuck 12” reads “MPD” which is repeated throughout.
A poster reads “Hey Tiny Hands Your’e [sic] fucking FIRED [illegible] America”. And there is a small orange hand in a suit that is holding a rolled-up eviction notice and the words “fucking” is layered over the colors which are the genderfluid flag and are white, blue, black and pink. The word “FIRED” is layered over the colors of the LGBTQ+ flag.
There is a yellow sheet of paper taped to the fence with black tape. There is a line of orange duct tape that has names of victims from police brutality written on it that reads “Mya Hall” “Meagan Hockaday” “Janisha F[illegible]” “Natasha McKenna” “Jerame Reed” “Rymain [illegible]” “Tanisha [illegible] “Dane Parker”
Multiple posters read “White Silence is Violence”, “The System Is Functioning As Intended [illegible] Was Never [illegible]”, “Get Out Of Our House”, “Warning Police Rioting”, “LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL not some” “Become Ingovernable !” “Black Trans Lives Matter”
A poster that reads “Take a Knee” is in the colors of the American flag, which are red, white, and blue.
A poster that reads “Resistance is Beautiful” and has an image of flowers that are in a vase that has drawn decorations on it in red, yellow, and tan colors.
There is a cardboard moving box used as a poster that reads ‘EXPRESS DELIVERY TO MOSCOW”
There is an American flag that is attached to the fence
A poster reads “Vote For Love.” It has a drawing of two people on it and has other statements that reads “you never giv [sic] up.” “You can fite [sic] the world!” “you can do it!” “you can do enything [sic] you buleve [sic] in”
A poster reads “Nov 2020 Take Out Trash [which has a checkmark over it] Jan 2021 Build Back Better Together Thank You American Voters”
There is a black fence blocking off a walking area due to what looks like construction, and next to it is plywood that has painted images on it. The plywood has an image of two interlocked hands which is next to a cut off image of Lady Justice. The two hands are painted a yellow-gold and has a black outline. Underneath the interlocked hands is an image of “+ > ÷” There is handwriting that reads “Rest in Power Daquan Jefferson” and a heart next to “Rest in Power”.
-
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 01 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
Within the fence, there are pieces of tied fabric or paper reading “We Keep Us Safe.” Each word is a different color and it is in pink, orange, green, and white respectively.
Multiple posters read “End Police Brutality” “Black Lives Matter” “If Your Religious Beliefs Oppose Same Sex Marriage, Don’t Get Married To Someone Of The Same Sex” “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Fuck 12” “RUTHless and Determined” Rest In Power Ruth Bader Ginsburg” “Fund the Communities” “Black Mental Health Matters” “Facts: Hospitalizations Up Deaths Up Global Pandemic” “AmeriKKKa”
There’s a poster that reads “’I can’t breathe. I have my ID [illegible] My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have [illegible] fun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat. I don’t judge people, I don’t judge people who do eat meat. Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better. I will do it. I will [illegible] anything. Sacrifice my identity, I’ll do it. You all are phenomenal. You are beautiful and I love you. Try to forgive me. I’m a mood Gemini. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Ow, that really hurt. You all are very strong. Teamwork makes the dream work. Oh, I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to do that. I just can’t breathe correctly.’ – The last words of Elijah McClain murdered on August 24, 2019 by [illegible] Aurora, Colorado Police Department. [illegible] 3 officers involved are still active [illegible] officers today. No charges were [illegible]”
On the road there is yellow spray paint that reads “Trump Lives Matter” and on a different section of the fence reads “FUCK 12” in orange duct tape. There’s a poster that reads “Justice 4 DeonKay” and another with the names of victims of police brutality which reads “Karon Hylton DeonKay Dquan Young Marqueese Alston Jeffrey Price Eric Carter Isabelle Duval Marquesha McMillan Sherman Evans Devonne Harris Peter John Terrence Sterling Bobby Gross Gerald Hall We Remember” and then a campaign poster of Joe Biden that has an image of his face in front of an American flag that reads “Justice”.
There are images of those who were victims to police brutality and they read “Andre Murphy St. Jan 7, 2015 [;] Rest in Power” “Darren N Hunt Sept 10, 2014 [;] Rest in Power” and “Alexa Christian April 20, 2015”.
Another poster underneath makes “Trump” into an acronym and it reads “Terrifying Racist Unrepentant Malicious PIG” and “Dump Trump”. -
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 16 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a black t-shirt that reads “Jamarion Robinson” that is hung up in front of the photo of someone’s face.
On a white wall there is a sticker of Donald Trump in prison clothes and cuffed but giving a thumbs up, and it reads “Law & Order.” He has a prison number and that reads “01202021.” This was created by the @1GoodHombre. Above this sticker reads “KEEP HIM OUT ! #FUCKTRUMP” And there is a silver circle with a line through the middle over the sticker of Trump.
There is a poster that reads “WE DEMAND EQUITY NOT EQUALITY” Beside this text reads “Work for [illegible] assholes…” Under the poster there is a post-it note that reads “Black Lives Matter” and on a piece of paper underneath this reads “Black lives are necessary ” “Veterans For Black Lives !!
On a section of a wall there are posters which reads “No More Cops” “No more Names” underneath these on the wall reads “No More Neo-Liberalism & SuperExploitation Eat the Rich”.
Further on the wall reads different statements which reads “Buy my Black Art!” “Blue Lives Don’t [sic] exist” “Fuck 12” “#Justice” “CPS Steals Kids!” “Black Beautiful” “Without that badge you’re a bitch & a half” “Books > Boys in Blue” “BLM” “40% of officers are reported domestic abusers” “If you’re reading this, quit your job” “Abolish Police“ “Felony Riot my ass” “I ain’t see shit” “’Matter’ is the minimum” “Neysham, you hinky hog-tying fucker” “Muriel, keep your pigs in the pen” crime ≠ harm accountability ≠ punishment
There is a sticker that reads “Defund the Police”
-
Protest graffiti on Department of the Treasury building
Graffiti on the facade of the Department of the Treasury using red, black, and blue spray paint. Text includes "We are unarmed!," "Fuck the system," "We want equality," "Pig pen," "ACAB," as "Fuck 12" in simple lettering. "Black Lives Matter" is painted using overlapping block letters. A pig face with x eyes appears on the facade as well. -
Fuck 12, BLM
The words "fuck 12" and "BLM" are spray painted with gold paint on a iron door. Above the text a possible peace sign is noted. -
FTP and various anti-police graffiti
FTP, Fuck 12, and various other anti-police graffiti painted in different colors. Produced in the context of intense conflict between protestors and police on May 28. -
BLM Storefront
Various texts by a number of different writers, including BLM, FK 12, No Justice No Peace, Love as well as a peace sign, a heart, and a fist.