smathlee:The picture is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘The Death Of Michael Stewart’. Michael Stewart was
smathlee:The picture is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘The Death Of Michael Stewart’. Michael Stewart was a graffiti artist from NYC who was arrested on September 15th 1983, was admitted to hospital about half an hour after his arrest in a coma from which he never awoke, dying on September 28th. He was held by eleven transit police officers. Six of those officers eventually faced homicide charges, and were acquitted. They were all white, and the jury were all white. Michael Stewart was a young black man. His death was from cardiac arrest caused by strangulation. -- source link
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