Pinball Justice (2015)

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This website was created ten years since Pinball Justice was made.  A decade ago, toward the end of President  Barack Obama's second term, police brutality and legal injustice against Black and other people failed to be addressed in any socially constructive way.  Of course the hope placed on  Obama was his power to change American society, but its currents run deep—these cases and their acquittals symptomatic of the tide that brought Trump to our shore.

Pinball Justice was inspired by two events: the acquittal of a Cleveland police officer that murdered two innocent Black persons at point blank range from the hood of their car, claiming he feared for his life; and a Chicago police officer that murdered a Black man, claiming the same from many yards away.  The officers in both cases participated in excessive police actions.  Video and imagery from both scenes disputing official accounts are used for the installation.