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My work expresses my vision for America as a place without police brutality and the constant injustices happening within people of color. Study shows that there has only been 10 days in 2017 where no one was killed by the police. And that black people were only 26% of those killed despite being 13% of the population. This shows how racially motivated the police are during these killings. My photograph shows a young brown girl with a saddened expression on her face with an empty police vehicle behind her. The viewer can depict is as they please, but it does indeed express a feeling of disappointment towards the police department. It can be viewed as a young girl mourning the loss of a loved one or even a stranger, killed by the police because of the color of their skin. It can be viewed as a young girl constantly being discriminated against because she is simply brown. Police brutality does not only do physical damage, but also mental damage. It causes fear in the hearts of the oppressed. Scared that you won't come back home from a trip to 7 eleven because you wanted candy. Or being stopped by the police at a traffic stop one second and another dying while your kids in the backseat watch you die. The list goes on and those were just the cases of Trayvon Martin and Philando Castile. Both in which the officers got to walk free from. Frederick Douglass once said “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Imagine America without without police brutality and so much discrimination and fear. It won't get rid of all of our problems but it sure would make a difference. This is a society i am trying to build. A place where i want America to be. A place i know where colored people wish to live in. The police are supposed to be protecting us. Who do we call when we’re in trouble? Why are we scared of calling the people who are supposed to be protecting us? Why are dying in the hands of the protector. Why do we give them so much power? There are so many questions that need answering. I am just an artist trying to open people’s eyes to see the problem and how that problem affects us. I am part of a movement and through my art, i need people to see though the eyes of the oppressed.

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