Bud Lee's photos landed on the front cover of Life magazine.
Photojournalist Bud Lee was shooting a portrait of a Wall Street stockbroker when he got the call to say that a civil uprising was underway in nearby Newark, New Jersey.What followed over the next five days in July of 1967 was a shocking, violent rebellion causing $10 million worth of damage and leaving 26 people dead. Lee was present at one of the deaths; a man named Billy Furr who was killed by the police.Chained arrestees are being loaded into a Sheriff’s van.
The riots started after a rumor spread that a Black cab driver had been killed inside a police precinct — this turned out to be false, but the man had been arrested and injured. However, Newark was a tinderbox waiting to ignite after the majority Black population felt ignored and discriminated against by the corrupt political elite.
12-year-old Joey Bass Jr. lies wounded on the street as Officer Scarpone, one of the Newark policemen whose bullets hit him, stands over.Lee, who died in 2015, captured some of the earliest known press images of police brutality — his photo of Billy Furr gunned down by law enforcement is accompanied by the shocking image of 12-year-old Joey Bass Jr. writhing in pain on the concrete after he was struck by the same bullets that killed Billy Furr.
which the publisher, ZE Books, describes as a series of “unsettling images capture an inescapable sense of fear, corruption, racial discrimination and authoritarian police force’s misuse of power.”
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