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22 Aug, 2014

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cover2Drooker’s art is featured on the cover of the New Yorker. The art depicts images of people holding their hands up with their backs turned. Hands up has become a symbol for the protest in Ferguson Missouri where an unarmed man was shot by police.

An artist friend of mine was killed by a cop in lower Manhattan, back in 1991. He happened to be black, and the police officer was never indicted.