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date: label: Date
content: May 31, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Tommy Oliver, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Culver City Police Department, American, founded 1917
label: Subject of
content: George Perry Floyd Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
notes: label: Caption
content: Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
label: Description
content: A digital, color image of a police officer at a Black Lives Matter protest on Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. It is a close-up of a police officer wearing a helmet with the clear visor down. The officer is depicted from the chest up, looking directly at the viewer. He dominates the right side of the image. He is wearing a navy blue uniform shirt, a riot helmet with a chip strap and a visor that has been lowered to protect his eyes. The visor is covered with a brown powdery substance. There is a partially visible patch on his shirt, over his proper right bicep and an oval-shaped patch over his proper left chest. The blue, white, and red patch on his proper right arm depicts the seal of Culver City, California with a banner across the center that reads [HEART OF SCREENLAND]. The light blue, yellow, and red patch over his chest has a seal at the center and dark blue text above and below that reads [CULVER CIT[Y?]] and [POLIC[E?]]. The left half of the image is a blurred line of police officers with their backs to the viewer, a motorcycle, and a crowd of protesters. In the distant background, is a blurred building and a line of blurred trees.
place: label: Place captured
content: Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of a police officer at a Black Lives Matter protest in Santa Monica
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.31.8
objectType: label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Tommy Oliver
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 4480 pixels × 6720 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 172.29 MB