Title : Shopping Days Author : Eric Drooker Date : Dec 14, 2015
Question : Should weapons be part of normal shopping ?
Keywords : consumerism, gun rights, violence, normality, absurdity
Keywords : Patriotism, the star-spangled banner, racism, police, injustice.
Read the New York Times.
After one more injustice committed by the police, artist P. Mendelsund created this cover showing a broken American flag. The colour blue and the white stars can easily be seen as the flag. The hole could have been caused by a gun shot. Both gun violence and racism were issues in 2015. The United States, and especially places such as Baltimore, have suffered from violence for a long time. The flag can be seen as a metaphor for the whole country, whose social fabric is damaged by all the crimes and the systemic police violence.
Injustice : Baltimore, 2015 by Peter Mendelsund’s
Check the article on this cover here
Peter Mendelsund’s says with humility that pictures cannot fix a broken country.
On April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American resident of Baltimore in Maryland. Gray was injured while he was in a police vehicle and he went into a coma. On April 18, there were protests in front of a district police station. Gray died.
More protests were organized after Gray’s death were known by the public, as the police department could not explain why freddy Gray was injured or why he was arrested. Spontaneous protests started after the funeral service, although several included violent elements.
