Following her 1963 arrest for desegregating a restaurant with other SNCC activists, civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was beaten and sexually abused by police in Winona, Mississippi.

A still from the dash-cam video of Austin, Texas, police officers violently arresting elementary school teacher Breaion King following an alleged traffic violation.

A California Highway Patrol officer punches Marlene Pinnock ten times in the face and neck by the side of a highway in an incident captured on cell-phone video by a passing motorist.

Water protector and Diné warrior woman Vanessa Dundon, also known as Sioux Z, was shot directly in the eye with tear gas by a Morton County, North Dakota, sheriff’s officer as she tried to help a woman reporter leave the area of an action against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Vanessa later said police were targeting women that night. She is unlikely to regain full sight in her right eye.

Muslim Bangladeshi American attorney Chaumtoli Huq was violently arrested by New York City police officers for “blocking the sidewalk” in Times Square in September 2014 as she waited for her family to use a restaurant restroom.

Roksana Mun of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) leads a January 2017 rally to shut down a proposed Muslim registry. For more information and to support DRUM’s critical work, please visit www.drumnyc.org.

Members of OKC Artists for Justice protest former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s sexual assault of more than thirteen Black women and girls.

After a 2014 traffic stop, Juan Evans, a Black trans man, was threatened with a “genital search” to assign him a gender by an East Point, Georgia, police officer. Evans returned to the police station a week later with more than a hundred members of the Solutions Not Punishment Coalition to demand justice—and went on to win a new policy for police interactions with transgender people. For more information and to support the coalition’s critical work, please visit www.rjactioncenter.org.

Family members of Black women killed by police, including Natasha Duncan, sister of Shantel Davis; Cynthia Howell, niece of Alberta Spruill and founder of Families United for Justice; Valarie Carey, sister of Miriam Carey; Martinez Sutton, brother of Rekia Boyd; Cassandra Johnson, mother of Tanisha Anderson; Sharon Wilkerson, mother of Shelly Frey; and Frances Garrett, mother of Michelle Cusseaux, on stage at the Say Her Name Vigil, organized by the African American Policy Forum, May 20, 2015.

Poster demanding justice for Bich-Cau Thi Tran, a Vietnamese mother of two shot to death in 2003 by San Jose, California, police responding to a call for assistance. Created by the Coalition for Justice And Accountability.

Poster developed by movement artist Micah Bazant in partnership with Sex Workers’ Outreach Project Phoenix as part of a campaign in support of Monica Jones, a Black trans woman falsely arrested for “manifestation of intent to commit or solicit an act of prostitution.”

Poster by artist Rommy Torrico commemorating the life of Jessie Hernandez, a seventeen-year-old queer Latinx shot and killed by Denver police in January 2015.

Members of BYP100 shut down the Chicago Police Board month after month until they won a recommendation to fire Dante Servin, the officer who killed Rekia Boyd. For more information and to support BYP100’s critical work, please visit www.byp100.org.

Altar for Korryn Gaines, Skye Mocabee, and all Black women killed by police and community created in the Bronx, New York, as part of a nationwide #DefendBlackWomanhood action called by Black Feminist Futures in August 2016.

Lisa Earl, mother of Jacqueline Salyers, a member of the Puyallup tribe killed by police in Tacoma, Washington, speaks at a March 2016 Justice for Jackie rally.

Poster “100 Black Women & Girls Killed by Police” researched by Andrea Ritchie, Mariame Kaba, and Deana Lewis, and designed by Antonia Clifford, for the exhibit Blood at the Root: Unearthing the Stories of State Violence Against Black Women. For more information, please visit: https://bloodatrootchicago.wordpress.com/.