But he had come up on them so fast and so purposefully and had such a big gun that they had frozen. And he had had a young apprentice with him – a middle-schooler they also knew by sight. They had actually recognized the guy – he was from the neighborhood.
When I had sat down with them and another student, John Linares, a couple of weeks prior at Community Coalition, where they are all active in the organization’s youth leadership program, the story had tumbled out in between giggles, head shakes, and shudders at the memory of fearing that they or their friends could end up with a massive hole in their chest over a phone or a couple of bucks. It wasn’t this side of the school, he says of where they got hit up. gestures and asks if I remember that story they told me about that guy that shoved a gun in their faces while they were skateboarding around the school that one afternoon. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.Īs we pass Fremont High School, J.C. It’s the site most people point to as the epicenter of the unrest that erupted on April 29, 1992, and one of many sites where liquor stores still dominate the landscape. and Miguel in the parking lot of the liquor store at Florence and Normandie. and Miguel are hoping that before-and-after images of several sites they’ve identified will tell us something about stasis and change in the 25 years since the acquittal of four white officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King sent people roiling into the streets back on April 29, 1992.īut in transit to those sites, the teens have managed to give me a very personalized tour through their own experiences.Īnd as they point out spots where they or someone they know has recently experienced some form of violence, their own narratives begin to complicate the before-and-after story they were looking to tell.
#Judge in vernissage shooting case already series#
We are on a mission to photograph sites that high schoolers Juan Carlos (J.C.) Mercado and Miguel Sanchez have identified as being integral to their contribution to Re-Imagine Justice – Community Coalition‘s month-long Living Art Museum and panel series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1992 unrest/uprising. Dayana de la Torre of Community Coalition is driving us through South Central on a Sunday afternoon.
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