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Anguish & Action: The Loop
from June 8 - 14, 2020
Chicago Protests
photographs by Kathleen Hinkel
On May 25, George Floyd died after spending 8 minutes and 46 seconds under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. In the haunting video of his death you see him call for his mother and speak his last words, “I can’t breathe.” These were also the last words of Eric Garner, whose similar 2014 death at the hands of a New York City police officer was also captured on video. George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Stephon Clark, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Fred Hampton and Emmett Till are a few names among the countless African American lives that have been lost to police brutality, systemic racism and injustice. Across Chicago and across America, thousands are rising up in remembrance of George Floyd and the many black lives that have been lost. People are marching in protest of police brutality and white supremacy and in solidarity with the racial justice movement. These photographs were taken at protests here in Chicago.
The Loop
May 30, 2020
Thousands gathered during a Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality and racial injustice at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
A woman carries a sign through a protest downtown.
Kathleen Hinkel
A protester wears a T-shirt saying "I can't breathe" - the last words of George Floyd and Eric Garner - while driving on Dearborn Street.
Kathleen Hinkel
A police officer sits in his vehicle during the protest.
Kathleen Hinkel
Police officers during the protest.
Kathleen Hinkel
A police officer and a protester talk.
Kathleen Hinkel
People protested from their cars on Dearborn Street.
Kathleen Hinkel
A woman is led away by police officers as the crowd chants "Let her go."
Kathleen Hinkel
A man is pushed aside by police after attempting to help a woman who was being removed from the Black Lives Matter Chicago protest.
Kathleen Hinkel
A woman wears a protective mask with George Floyd's last words, "I Can't Breathe," written on it.
Kathleen Hinkel
