A Look at The BLM Protests in NYC

Photographed and Written by Deanasia JeanPierre

Commentary written in accordance to image order (Left to Right). There are ten total:

1) To say that the system never worked is false. The systematic racism that we face today did not happen by chance or overnight. From the beginning of time, the plan has always been to keep people of color disenfranchised and dependent. Read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

2) We thought that the police injured this man but come to find out he just slipped and fell. The girl in the tank top was providing him with band-aids, water, alcohol pads, and cleaning up his blood. The cops did nothing to help the man and kind of seemed agitated that everyone was stopping to make sure the man was okay.

3) Albeit the circumstances and reason, I love to see the world rising up for all the George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s. I’ve never witnessed global protesting and uproar first hand and I’m really proud to say that I think change may come finally. There’s strength in numbers and power in unity.

4) SAY HIS NAME ROGER GOODELL. Why is the NFL suddenly supporting and standing with the black community while Colin Kaepernick was basically crucified and exiled out of the league? The NFL commissioner is claiming that the NFL “condemns racism and the systematic oppression of black people” but was and STILL actively blackballing Kaepernick. Make it make sense.

5) This was the scene outside of Washington Square Park. Immediately after leaving the park, protesters ran into a line of cops and of course tension is flaring; someone throws a water bottle at them. Actually a few water bottles, but that’s neither here nor there. Immediately, homeboy in the peach/orange shorts starts yelling at everyone to stop and just continue walking. When he realized the crowd wasn’t listening he pleaded with us to kneel peacefully and started pleading with us to make a barricade for the cops (that’s what you see)... when I tell y’all I was so hurt to see all my black people get down on a knee for these white officers that could care less about the movement or the reason. NYPD has the blood of MANY MANY African Americans on their hands with no remorse or guilt. When are we going to learn, appeasement gets us nowhere?

6) George Floyd

7) “You’re black before you’re blue!” - A fed up protester

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9) “I understand that I will never understand but I stand with you” and that’s all we ask for; support.

10) Zara's.

8) Unarmed. And dead.

TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty.)

KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.)

ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking out her window, shot by police officer, who is still under indictment for murder.)

JONATHAN FERRELL (Asking for help after auto accident. Shot twelve times by police, case ended in mistrial.)

JORDAN EDWARDS (Riding in a car. Shot in the back of the head by police officer, who was found guilty of murder.)

STEPHON CLARK (Holding a cell phone. Shot 8 times, 6 in the back. Officers not charged.)

AMADOU DIALLO (While taking out wallet, officers fired 41 shots by four officers, who were all acquitted.)

RENISHA MCBRIDE (Auto accident, knocked on door for help. Homeowner was found guilty of second-degree murder.)

TAMIR RICE (Playing with toy gun, shot by police officer arriving on scene. Officer was not charged.

SEAN BELL (Hosting a bachelor party, 50 rounds fired by police officers, who were found not guilty of charges.)

WALTER SCOTT (Pulled over for brake light, shot in the back by police officer, who pleaded guilty to civil rights violations.)

PHILANDO CASTILE (Pulled over in car, told officer he had a legally registered weapon in car. Officer acquitted of all charges.)

AIYANA JONES (Sleeping, accidentally shot by officer in a raid on wrong apartment. Officer cleared of all charges.)

TERRENCE CRUTCHER (Disabled vehicle, shot by police officer, who was found not guilty of manslaughter.)

ALTON STERLING (Selling CDs, shot at close range while being arrested. No charges filed.)

FREDDIE GRAY (Beaten to death by officers while being transported in police van. All officers involved were acquitted.)

JOHN CRAWFORD (Shopping at WalMart, holding a BB gun on sale, police officer was not charged.)

MICHAEL BROWN (Shot by twelve times by officer, including in the back. No charges filed.)

JORDAN DAVIS (Killed because he was playing loud music. Shooter found guilty of first-degree murder.)

SANDRA BLAND (Pulled over for traffic ticket, tasered and arrested. Suspicious “suicide” while in jail. No charges.)

BOTHAM JEAN (Shot at home, which police officer mistook for her own. Officer found guilty of murder.)

OSCAR GRANT (Handcuffed and face-down, officer shot him in the back. Officer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.)

COREY JONES (Waiting by his disabled vehicle, was shot three times by police officer, who was found guilty of murder.)

AHMAUD AUBREY (Jogging, shot by two men who claimed they suspected him of burglaries. Both men charged with murder and aggravated assault”