CHICAGO TRIBUNE
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
It was incorrectly stated that Mexican American performance artist Gemini Jimenez died by suicide last week. The drowning was “faked” and was, in fact, a new performance art piece designed to draw attention to police injustice.
Jimenez herself had called the police, pretending to be a witness to her own death.
“I apologize for my role in frittering away valuable police resources searching for me when they could have been used to perpetrate excessive violence,” Jimenez said in a press conference before her mic was turned off.
“Technically, it is not illegal to pretend to be dead,” said Detective David Torres, “but you can be sure we’ll be investigating whether insurance fraud or tax evasion is involved.”