Thanks to Hajime Isayama for inspiring this with his manga Attack on Titan, specifically chapter 80 which heavily influenced this drawing.
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If you have a few more minutes, listen to Trevor Noah explain the steps that lead up to the protests: https://youtu.be/v4amCfVbA_c
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Every face you see was a person. Every face you see, was the face of somebody's baby.
From Left to right
Fred Hampton: assassinated in 1969 by the FBI for being an activist and member of the Black Panther Party, age 21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
Renisha McBride: Murdered in 2013 for knocking on a door, age 19
Sandra Bland: died in 2015 while imprisoned for a minor traffic violation, age 28
Malice Green: Murdered by police in 1992, age 35
Malcolm X: assassinated in 1965 for being a civil rights leader, age 39
Lamar Smith: assassinated in 1955 for being a civil rights activist, age 63
Eleanor Bumpurs: evicted from her home and shot to death by police in 1984, age 66
Kimberly Jones: alive.
James Earl Chaney: murdered by the KKK for being a civil rights activist, age 21
Tyisha Shenee Miller: murdered by police in 1998 for having a seizure, age 19
Martin Luther king jr.: assassinated in 1968 for being a civil rights leader, age 39
Emmitt Till: Murdered in 1955 for offending a white woman, age 14
Ahmaud Arbery: Murdered in 2020 for jogging, age 25
Nat Turner: executed in 1831 for killing the masters, age 31
Natasha McKenna: electrocuted to death by police while handcuffed in 2015 for having mental illness, age 37
George Junius Stinney Jr.: put to death by electrocution in 1944 for a ruling that was overturned in 2014, age 14
Lavante Trevon Biggs: killed by police in 2015 for being suicidal and holding an airsoft gun, age 21
Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones: murdered by police in 2010 for sleeping, age 7
Michelle Cusseaux: killed by police in 2014 for having mental illness, age 50
Walter Anthony Rodney: assassinated in 1980 for being a civil rights activist, age 38
Patrick Dorismond: murdered by undercover police in 2000 after they accused him of selling pot, age 26
Trevor Noah: Alive
Sean Bell: murdered by undercover police in 2006 at his bachelor party, age 23
George Floyd: murdered by police in 2020 for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill, age 46
Kalief Browder: after being held in prison for 3 years, 2 of those years in solitary confinement, for a crime he didn't commit, he committed suicide in 2015, age 22
Alexia Christian: killed by police in 2015, age 26
Breonna Taylor: murdered in 2020 by police for sleeping in her bed, age 26
Marsha P. Johnson: died in 1992 possibly from murder. Police took no interest in investigating the case. Age 46
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