Friday, May 14, 2021
Intervention 3
“ We Use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism, and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.” (Guerrilla Girls)
My Third intervention is a few of posters about people who have been wrongfully accused. “As of January 2020, the Innocence Project has documented over 365 DNA exonerations in the United States. Twenty-one of these exonerees had previously been sentenced to death.” (“Resources”). This issue is important because people are being put away with false evidence and statements. Investigations are not being fully investigated making sure that everything and everyone is taken into consideration. If we raise awareness by protesting having people look back into cases making sure that person that is being accused is the right person.
This is a picture of Antron McCray, 15, Kevin Richardson, 15, Yusef Salaam, 15, Raymond Santana, 14, and Korey Wise, 16 who came to be known as the Central Park Five. April 20, 1989 5 teenagers were accused of brutally assaulting a 28 year old woman. In 2002 the actual attacker Matias Reyes confessed and DNA evidence confirmed it was him. The Movie When They See us produced and directed by Ava Duvernay tells the story on Netflix. I would not have known about this story if it was not for this movie and made me think how many stories are like this. How many people have been wrongfully convicted and how many people have died because of false accusations.
This is a poster I created to state that before the police should be sure that the investigation should be look through thoroughly and they should make sure that the person they are putting away is correct.
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