Drone fine art photograph — aerial photography by Xynn Tii

Visualize your own daughter or son getting murdered. Picture your mother or father becoming paralyzed from a stray bullet. Emotional instability when directly impacted by the trigger-happy injustice that plagues our Divided States of America.

Do not be so naive as to wait for your own life to be destroyed before paying attention. Jacob Blake. Rayshard Brooks. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Atatiana Jefferson. Philando Castille. Alton Sterling. Freddie Gray. Andy Lopez.

Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Trayvon Martin. Walter Scott. Alonzo Smith. Dominique Clayton. Rumain Brisbon. Jerame Reid. Brendon Glenn. Michael Sabbie. Jamontez Jones. Jamar Clark. India Kager. Michael Noel. Bettie Jones.



Occupy City Hall. Abolition Park. Lower Manhattan. 30 consecutive days.

Young activists organizing demand for unequivocal NYPD budget reform.



Abolition Park becomes a village with power, nourishments, and education.

Police presence as an effort to instill order. Protesters expressing opposition.



A brutal standoff with NYPD lasting 30 days with demands left unanswered.

Threats from D.C. to deploy federal troops only exacerbates futile tensions.



I Might Be Next

Quintonio LeGrier. Keith Childress Jr. Janet Wilson. Sandra Bland. Ezell Ford. Miriam Carey. Carlos Alcis. Darnisha Harris. Timothy Russell. Charles Roundtree Jr. Alesia Thomas. Tamon Robinson. Akai Gurley. Dante Parker. Jordan Baker.

Timothy Stansbury Jr. David McAtee. Dreasjon Reed. Manuel Ellis. Emantic Bradford. Malissa Williams. Antwon Rose Jr. Saheed Vassell. Stephon Clark. Aaron Bailey. Charleena Lyles. Jordan Edwards. Tony Robinson Jr. Natasha McKenna.

Deborah Danner. Alfred Olango. Terence Crutcher. Terrence Sterling. Korryn Gaines. Joseph Mann. Jamar O’Neal. Jeremy McDole. Samuel DuBose. Eric Harris. Phillip White. Mya Hall. Meagan Hockaday. Chad Robertson. Kyam Livingston. Xynn Tii?