Amid the daily panic of the Trump administration, artist Ravi Zupa wanted to make sure Americans don't neglect the epidemic of police violence. So he collaborated with Art Responders, a San Francisco-based activist art collective, to create Countdown to Justice. The series of prints depicts scenes of police violence juxtaposed with lyrics from Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples referencing police violence and the necessity of continuing to demand that Black Lives Matter.As the Denver-based Shepard Fairey collaborator told AlterNet over email, "most people don't realize how many of these events continue to occur. According to the Washington Post Fatal Force database, there have been six unarmed black citizens shot and killed by police in the U.S. this year including a 21-year-old pregnant woman. This is an average of two per month, but because the media has so much to contend with (understandably) very few people are aware of it." He will release a new print every time an unarmed black person is killed by police.
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