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Jun 2015

Broken Promises, Broken Lives

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik The mostly black electorate of Baltimore elected a white candidate to be the next mayor in 1999. My editor at The Boston Globe asked me to […]

Baltimore Protests 2015 April & May — APRIL 28, 2015-BALTIMORE MD-USA- Large number of protesters were out in the streets Tuesday night to protest the death of Freddie Gray, who was killed while in police custody one day after his funeral. Minutes after the police made an announcement for the 10 p.m. curfew police began firing tear gas canisters at members of the media and protesters.
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Dec 2014

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik “Government must focus on the needs of families, must be the protector of neighborhoods and must guard the people from the enormous power of monied interests. […]

NYPD officers Ramos & Liu killed during protests over Eric Garner case verdict — Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A wall referring to the shooting of Michael Brown on a doorway of a building along Myrtle Avenue, the route the killer took toy get the subway after shooting the two officers.
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Aug 2014

A Funeral in Ferguson

Text by James Pound | Photos by Robert Stolarik A calm returns to Ferguson as the city quietly seeks answers and mourns the loss of Michael Brown, the unarmed teen that was shot and killed […]

AUGUST 25, 2014-ST LOUIS, MO-USA: Lesley McSpadden walks into the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church before the services for her son, Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police on August 9, 2014.(Robert Stolarik for The New York Times)

AUGUST 25, 2014-ST LOUIS, MO-USA: Members of the community outside the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church during the funeral services for Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police on August 9, 2014.(Robert Stolarik for The New York Times)

AUGUST 25, 2014-ST LOUIS, MO-USA: The casket of Michael Brown, the unarmed teen that was shot and killed by police in Ferguson Missouri August 9, 2014 arrives by a horse drawn carriage at the St Peter’s Cemetery Monday afternoon..(Robert Stolarik for The New York Times)

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Jun 2014

West Harlem Gang Raid

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik NEW YORK — Whenever LaQuint Singleton found himself about to get into a fight out in the courtyards or in the small playground in front of […]

JUNE 4, 2014-NEW YORK, NY-USA: Members of the NYPD Gang Division raid the Manhattanville Houses and the Grant Houses early Wednesday morning holding warrants for more than 100 gang members wanted in connection for murder, and other gang related offenses. Members of the NYPD apprehend hang members at the Grant Houses early Wednesday morning. (Robert Stolarik for the New York Times)

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May 2014

Police Brutality in the Bronx

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik UPDATE: ‘Prominent Lawyer Takes Case of Bronx Boy Allegedly Pushed Through Window by Police’ NEW YORK — The 14-year-old boy sat on the stoop of Hookah […]

Javier Payne and his family joined Rev. Al Sharpton at the national Action Headquarters in Harlem on May 24, 2014 to call for swift justice in the recent incident involving the NYPD. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE) — Rev. Al Sharpton at the national Action Headquarters in Harlem on May 24, 2014 calling for swift justice in the recent incident involving the NYPD allegedly pushing 14-year-old Javier Payne through a plate glass window. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

City Council Member Ritchie Torres who represents the district where Javier Payne was allegedly pushed through a glass window by the NYPD at his offices in the Bronx on May 24, 2014. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

The scene outside the Hookah Spot in the Bronx on May 24, 2014, nearly one week after 14-year-old Javier Payne was allegedly pushed through the storefront glass window while in custody of the NYPD. A window washer cleaned the windows of the shop. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

The emergency room entrance at Jacobi Medical Center where Javier Payne was brought in after allegedly being pushed through a plate glass window by members of the NYPD. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Outside the 48th Precinct in the Bronx on May 21, 2014, where the officers who allegedly pushed Javier Payne through a plate glass window are stationed. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Constance Malcolm in the Bronx on May 21, 2014 outside the home where her son Ramarley Graham was killed by members of the NYPD in February 2012. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Teachers and students leaving Public School 22 on on May 21, 2014 in the Bronx where Javier Payne attends the 8th grade. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

A weathered sign outside Public School 22 on May 21, 2014 in the Bronx where Javier Payne attends the 8th grade. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Yoseluis Montero a friend of Javier Payne leaving Public School 22 on May 21, 2014 in the Bronx where Payne attends the 8th grade. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

A young girl is handcuffed and place under arrest on May 21, 2014 outside Public School 22 Wednesday afternoon in the Bronx where Javier Payne attends the 8th grade. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

The blood stained sidewalk on May 18, 2014 outside the Hookah Spot on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx where 14-year-old Javier Payne was allegedly pushed through a glass window by police from the 45th precinct while he was handcuffed. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

A police car flew past the Edenwald Houses in the North Bronx on May 17 2014. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Members of the NYPD stopped vehicles along White Plains Road on May 17, 2014 in the North Bronx, where there has been a recent surge in gun violence.(Robert Stolarik for JJIE)

Police cars parked outside PSA 8 at the Edenwald Houses in the confines of the 47th Precinct in the North Bronx on May 17, 2014. (Robert Stolarik for JJIE.)

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Feb 2014

The Anonymous People

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — On a recent grey Saturday morning, a quiet fell over the sparse audience seated in a vocational school assembly hall as Kimberly […]

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Feb 2014

The Kids for Cash Scandal

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — After a few beers one evening in the mid-1960s, Mark Ciavarella, in high school at the time and applying the kind of inexplicable […]

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Feb 2014

Hurting in Harlem

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik The killing of 18-year-old Tayshana Murphy on an early morning in 2011 has led to a series of retaliatory beatings, stabbings and shootings between the Manhattanville […]

Taylonn Murphy, father of the slain Tayshana Murphy, with Naquan Brockington, the brother of Tayshana’s killer. The two have been trying to show solidarity in the hope it will end the violence in the community.

Taylonn Murphy stands at the site at the Grant Houses where his daughter Tayshana Murphy was shot and killed in 2011.

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Dec 2013

Sandy Hook One Year Later

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik NEWTOWN, Conn. — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity as a quaint New […]

NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity as a quaint New England town. A “Welcome to Sandy Hook” sign of angels hung along highway 34. Photo: Robert Stolarik.

NEWTOWN, Conn., — A stairway leading to a stream in downtown Newtown.

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Dec 2013

In and Out of the Boxing Ring, Two Men Confront Very Different Demons

Text by Daryl Khan | Photos by Robert Stolarik On a bitterly cold winter January morning in 2008, Adam Friedman and Alvin Valentine, friends and co-workers, climbed into a Brooklyn boxing ring and proceeded to […]