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What exactly are they trying to say with this??? Disturbing figures of lynched Black bodies were discovered hanging in various locations on UC Berkeley’s campus early Saturday morning. The figures featured the name of the lynching victims and were stamped with the phrase #Icantbreathe, which in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision , has become a rallying cry for police brutality protesters . Naturally, this left most confused as to the intent of the figures — are they meant to offend or to call attention to the issue? Via The Root : The Associated Press is reporting that three cardboard cutouts of black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. University spokeswoman Amy Hamaoui said police are investigating the incident to determine who hanged the effigies that were found at two prominent campus locations Saturday morning, the report says. The spokeswoman told the AP that the effigies appeared to connected to a nearby noon-time demonstration that coincided with #BlackLivesMatter protests around the country. The effigies appear to be life-size photos of lynching victims. Two depicted men and a third was a photograph of a female victim, the report says. The effigies had names of lynching victims and the dates of their death. At least one effigy had “I Can’t Breathe” printed on the front, the report says. “We are unsure of the intent,” Hamaoui said. Organizers of the Berkeley protest were also confounded by the offensive imagery, which has deep roots in America’s racist past, especially in the Reconstruction era when blacks were lynched as a measure to exert white supremacy. “We just hope it’s someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,” Spencer Pritchard, 21, a U.C. Berkeley student and an organizer of the demonstration, told the news outlet. He said about 200 protesters demonstrated in Berkeley with the goal to “disrupt business as usual to show that black lives matter,” the report says. As it turns out, the effigies were intended to draw attention to the ONGOING issue of law-enforcement violence against Blacks that has plagued this country since it’s inception. Our friends over at BallerAlert were able to snag this closeup photo of the femals cut out and the story behind it: Interesting. Definitely striking imagery to get the point across. What do you think of this protest action, Bossip Fam?

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WTF? Cardboard Cutouts Of Lynched Black People Found Hanging Around UC Berkeley Campus