Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_01Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_01Signs 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_02Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_02Marchers 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_03Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_03A 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_04Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_04A 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_05Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_05A 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_06Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_06Juanita 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_07Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_07Donna 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_08Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_08A photo of Nicholas Heyward Jr. in the Heyward’s apartment in Brooklyn.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_09Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_09Family 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.
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Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_10Police Brutality: Marchers & Mourners_10Quentin 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.
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