Name: Jimmie Lee Jackson
Location: Mack’s Café, Marion, Alabama 36756
Date: February 18, 1965 (shot and beaten) February 26, 1965 (death)
Time: Night
Name: Eleanor Bumpers
Location: Sedgwick Houses, 1551 University Ave. Bronx, NY 10453
Date: October 29, 1984
Time: Unknown
Name: Anthony Dwain Lee
Location: 9701 Yoakum Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Date: October 28, 2000
Time: Approximately 1:00 am
Name: Danny Woodyard
Location: West Point Loma Ave. and Voltaire St. San Diego, CA 92107
Date: February 4, 2003
Time: The morning
Name: Ronald Madison and James Brissette
Location: Danziger Bridge, US-90 New Orleans, LA 70126
Date: September 4, 2005
Time: Just after 9am
Name: Oscar Grant
Location: Fruitvale Station BART 3401 E 12th St. Oakland, CA 94601
Date: January 1, 2009
Time: 2:15am
Name: Aiyana Jones
Location: 4054 Lillibridge St. Detroit, MI 48214
Date: May 16, 2010
Time: A little after midnight
Name: Tony Louis Francis
Location: 9400 block Alondra Blvd. Bellflower, CA 90706
Date: August 24, 2012
Time: Shortly after 2pm
Name: Jordan West-Morson
Location: Eight Mile and Gratiot Detroit, MI 48205
Date: May 1, 2013
Time: Evening
Name: Ananias Shaw
Location: 1208 Broad St. Selma, AL 36701
Date: December 4, 2013
Time: 2:32pm
Name: VonDerrit Myers
Location: The corner of Shaw Blvd. and Klemm St. Saint Louis, MO 63110
Date: October 9, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Name: Christopher Anderson
Location: Highland Park Hospital 777 Park Ave. West Highland Park, IL 60035
Date: November 3, 2014
Time: 1:30am
Name: Jeff Alexander
Location: 1125½ 19th St. Bakersfield, CA 93301
Date: March 17, 2015
Time: Around 7pm Tuesday night
Name: Samuel DuBose
Location: Rice St. near Thill St. Cincinnati, OH 45219
Date: July 19, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Name: Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard, Fred Temple
Location: Annex of the Algiers Motel, 8301 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48202
Date: July 25, 1967
Time: Just after midnight
Name: Adolph Archie
Location: 501 N Rampart St. New Orleans, LA 70112
Date: March 22, 1990
Time: Unknown
Name: Ricardo Esparza
Location: 9827 Walnut St. Bellflower, CA 90706
Date: April 3, 2001
Time: Unknown
Name: Alberta Spruill
Location: 310 West 143rd St. #6F New York 10030
Date: May 16, 2003
Time: 6:10am
Name: Anthony Hayes
Location: 1801 Saint Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70130
Date: December 26, 2005
Time: 3:00pm
Name: Adolph Grimes III
Location: 1700 block of Gov. Nicholls St. New Orleans, LA 70116
Date: January 1, 2009
Time: 3:06am
Name: Anthony Aguilar
Location: 1850 Morningside Ct. Azusa, CA 91702
Date: June 9, 2010
Time: Early Wednesday Morning
Name: Justin Thompson
Location: 4740 Wooddale Ave. Memphis, TN 38118
Date: September 24, 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Name: Tyrone West
Location: 1300 block of Kitmore Rd. Baltimore, MD
Date: July 18, 2013
Time: Thursday Evening
Name: George V. King
Location: Good Samaritan Hospital 5601 Loch Raven Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21239
Date: May 7, 2014 (date of injury resulting in death) May 12, 2014 (declared brain dead and the ventilator was disconnected)
Time: Sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 7:10 p.m.
Name: Ronald Johnson
Location: 5300 block of S. King Dr. Chicago, IL 60615
Date: October 13, 2014
Time: Just after midnight
Name: Ramiro James Villegas
Location: Intersection of SR 178 off ramp at Mt. Vernon Ave. Bakersfield, CA 933306
Date: November 13, 2014
Time: about 9:15pm
Name: Megan Hockaday
Location: 500 block W Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA 93036
Date: March 28, 2015
Time: Early morning
Name: Raymond Ferdinand
Location: Algiers-Fisher Housing Project, New Orleans, LA
Date: November 11, 1980
Time: Unknown
Name: Malice Green
Location: W. Warren Ave. and 23rd St. Detroit, MI 48208
Date: November 5, 1992
Time: Evening
Name: Idriss Stelley
Location: The Metreon 135 4th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Date: June 13, 2001
Time: Late on a Wednesday night
Name: Henry Glover
Location: Banks of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, LA
Date: September 2, 2005
Time: Unknown
Name: Mohammad Usman Chaundhry
Location: 1435 N. Curson St. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Date: March 25, 2008
Time: 4:00- 4:21am
Name: Omar J. Edwards
Location: Second Ave. near 124th St. New York City, NY 10035
Date: May 28, 2009
Time: 10:20 - 11:20pm
Name: Stephen Bullock
Location: 932 E. New York Dr. Altadena, CA 91001
Date: February 18, 2011
Time: 11:30pm
Name: Charles Livingston III
Location: 2062 Frayser Blvd. Memphis, TN 38127
Date: December 27, 2012
Time: 4:15pm
Name: Ronnie Ledesma Jr
Location: 2629 Mt. Vernon Ave. Bakersfield 93306
Date: August 19, 2013
Time: About 8:35pm
Name: Eric Garner
Location: 202 Bay St. Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY 10301
Date: July 17, 2014
Time: 3:30pm
Name: Laquan McDonald
Location: 4100 block of S. Pulaski Rd. Chicago, IL 60624
Date: October 20, 2014
Time: 9:45pm
Name: Tamir Rice
Location: Cudell Recreation Center 1910 West Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44102
Date: November 22, 2014
Time: Around 3:30pm
Name: Brandon Glenn
Location: 52 Winward Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90291
Date: May 5, 2015
Time: About 11:20pm
Name: Sherry Singleton, Reginald Myles, James Billy
Location: 1133 Teche St. New Orleans, LA 70114
Date: November 14, 1980
Time: 2:45 am
Name: Errol Shaw Jr
Location: 16565 Ferguson St. Detroit, MI 48235
Date: August 29, 2000
Time: Afternoon
Name: Frank Tranquilino
Location: 3300 block of Maxson Rd. El Monte, CA 91732
Date: October 24, 2002
Time: About 4:00pm
Name: Danny Brumfield Sr.
Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70130
Date: September 3, 2005
Time: About 2:00am
Name: Julian Alexander
Location: 300 block N. Muller St. Anaheim, CA 92801
Date: October 28, 2008
Time: About 1:30am
Name: Efrain Lara Gutierrez
Location: 18203 Renwick Rd. Azusa, CA 91720
Date: October 2, 2009
Time: 1:15am
Name: Ramarley Graham
Location: East 229th St. Bronx, NY 10466
Date: February 2, 2012
Time: 3:00pm
Name: Steven Askew
Location: 5267 Knight Arnold Rd. Memphis, TN 38118
Date: January 17, 2013
Time: 9:50 pm
Name: Donte Bennett
Location: 200 block of Spring Ct. Baltimore, MD 21231
Date: September 4, 2013
Time: 7:00pm
Name: Kajieme Powell
Location: 8701 Riverview Blvd. Saint Louis, MO 63147
Date: August 19, 2014
Time: Shortly before 1pm
Name: Craig Hall
Location: 2000 block of 13th Ave. Maywood, IL 60155
Date: October 25, 2014
Time: Pronounced dead at 2:41am
Name: Amilcar Perez Lopez
Location: 2800 block of Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Date: February 26, 2015
Time: around 9:45pm
Name: Demouria Hogg
Location: Lakeshore Ave. off-ramp Interstate 580 Oakland, CA
Date: June 6, 2015
Time: About 8:40am
WHERE IT HAPPENED
Where it Happened is a series of 54 landscape photographs, that document the locations where 58 people of color were killed by law enforcement officers in the United States of America.
I began this series while living in Nashville, Tennessee in the wake of the murders of Michael Brown and Von Derrit Myers; two Black 18 year-olds killed just miles from where I grew up. These two murders highlighted the way one death can gain national media attention while another is quickly forgotten by the larger public. I saw this project as an opportunity to trace a line through history, regionality, class, circumstance and notoriety, to look beyond the headlines and at the pattern of police violence against Black and Brown people.
This series of photographs is an incomplete archive as it spans 50 years, from 1965 to 2015, and documents only 58 of the probable tens of thousands* of deaths that happened over that time. While incomplete this series serves as a memorial to the lives lost and a reminder that these fatal encounters happen in every corner of the nation.
As of the last review of this statement (March 2024) there is still little accountability for police brutality and often no justice for these murders.
*According to multiple sources including The Guardian and The Washington Post an average of 3 people a day are killed by police officers in the United States.