© BokehFocus.org | All rights reserved

Primary Mobile Navigation

  • Photo Galleries
  • Our 3D Virtual Galleries
    • 2021 Spring Exhibit — In Pursuit of Justice
    • 2020 Fall Exhibit — The New World: Isolation
  • Stories
  • Photographer Interviews
  • What is Bokeh Focus?
    • Bokeh Focus History
  • Initiatives by Year
    • Our Day-to-Day Initiatives
    • 2022 — Our Current Initiatives
      • 2020-2022: Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
    • 2021 Initiatives
      • 2021 -— In Pursuit of Justice Exhibit & 3D Virtual Gallery
      • 2020-2022: Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
    • 2020 Initiatives
      • 2020 — The New World: Isolation Exhibit & 3D Virtual Gallery
      • Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
        • Women’s Leadership: Driving Change Webinar Video
    • 2019 — Atlanta: Then & Now Exhibit
    • 2018 — Traveling the World Through an Atlanta Lens Exhibit
  • How To Be Featured
    • Be Our Photographer of the Week
    • Be Our Photographer of the Month
  • Upcoming Events
  • Our Donors
  • Get in Touch!
  • Privacy Policy

Categories

  • Art
  • Bokeh Focus
  • Featured
  • Journalism Interviews
  • News
  • Photo Essays
  • Photographer Interviews
  • Videos
  • Youth Report

© BokehFocus.org 2017-2022
All rights reserved.
Powered by WordPress
& Pixelgrade Themes

Bokeh Focus
  • Photo Galleries
  • Our 3D Virtual Galleries
    • 2021 Spring Exhibit — In Pursuit of Justice
    • 2020 Fall Exhibit — The New World: Isolation
  • Stories
  • Photographer Interviews
  • What is Bokeh Focus?
    • Bokeh Focus History
  • Initiatives by Year
    • Our Day-to-Day Initiatives
    • 2022 — Our Current Initiatives
      • 2020-2022: Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
    • 2021 Initiatives
      • 2021 -— In Pursuit of Justice Exhibit & 3D Virtual Gallery
      • 2020-2022: Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
    • 2020 Initiatives
      • 2020 — The New World: Isolation Exhibit & 3D Virtual Gallery
      • Moroccan Virtual Exchange Project
        • Women’s Leadership: Driving Change Webinar Video
    • 2019 — Atlanta: Then & Now Exhibit
    • 2018 — Traveling the World Through an Atlanta Lens Exhibit
  • How To Be Featured
    • Be Our Photographer of the Week
    • Be Our Photographer of the Month
  • Upcoming Events
  • Our Donors
  • Get in Touch!
  • Privacy Policy

Categories

  • Art
  • Bokeh Focus
  • Featured
  • Journalism Interviews
  • News
  • Photo Essays
  • Photographer Interviews
  • Videos
  • Youth Report
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Youtube

© BokehFocus.org 2017-2022
All rights reserved.
Powered by WordPress
& Pixelgrade Themes

Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_01
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_01 Signs from the 2018 October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. One of the signs memorializes Nicholas Heywards Jr., a 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a New York Police Department officer in a housing project while he played with cops and robbers with a toy gun.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_02
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_02 Marchers walk through the streets of Manhattan for the 2018 October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation in Manhattan.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_03
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_03 A teenager holds up loudspeaker at the 2018 October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation in Manhattan. Family members of people killed by the police and their supporters participate in the march each year. The teenager later spoke to the crowd and said that he’d had a bad experience with the New York Police Department a few months earlier and that was why he decided to attend the march.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_04
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_04 A supporter of the Stolen Lives Project performs a ritual honoring the dead at the 2018 induction ceremony for the parents of people killed by the police held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_05
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_05 A poster of Akai Gurley who was shot and killed in the stairwell of the Pink Houses in Brooklyn. Akai Gurley’s family were inducted in the Stolen Lives project at the 2018 ceremony.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_06
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_06 Juanita Young addresses the crowd at the 2018 induction into the Stolen Lives project. Young’s son, Malcolm Ferguson, was shot and killed by the New York Police Department in March 2000. She is now an activist for reform and a leader among the parents of people killed by the police.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_07
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_07 Donna Carter-Heyward plans the funeral for her husband, Nicholas Heyward Sr., in her Brooklyn apartment. Heyward Sr.’s son, Nicholas Heyward Jr., was shot and killed by the police when he was 13 years old. His father spent the next two decades fighting for justice before he died in January. 2019.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_08
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_08 A photo of Nicholas Heyward Jr. in the Heyward’s apartment in Brooklyn.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_09
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_09 Family members of people killed by the police take a photo outside the funeral home after Nicholas Heyward Sr.’s wake. To many in the community, Heyward Sr. was an elder statesman of sorts, and one of the first people to show up at their door after their loved one was killed.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_10
Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_10 Quentin Heyward stands over the grave of his father, Nicholas Heyward Sr., in January 2019 in a cemetery in New Jersey. Heyward said he plans to continue his father’s fight for justice for his older brother, Nicholas Heyward Jr.
Photo: Clarissa Sosin
Find this story and others like it at JJIE