Oree Originol is a Bay Area-based artist who created Justice For Our Lives – an open source digital portrait series of 100 people killed by US law enforcement (this is a work in progress, and as of now there are 97 portraits). Oree Originol makes these designs available for free download on his website to support impacted families of state sponsored terror and to serve as a tool that amplifies these stories in our activism. Download posters for free here. Support him by tipping him on Venmo or Paypal, or purchase his other artistic work here.
In this altar, you will see that 29 portraits of the series were selected to honor those killed in the Bay Area alone. These portraits do not represent all police killings in the Bay Area – in fact, since 2015 law enforcement have killed 110 people in the Bay Area. We are grateful to Oree that through his work, we are able to bring more awareness to these souls so that they may rest in justice.
Idriss Stelley, SF, June 2001
Oscar Grant, Oakland, Jan. 2009
Kenneth Harding, SF, July 2011
Alan Blueford, Oakland, May 2012
Derrick Gaines, SF, June 2012
Andy Lopez, Santa Rosa, Oct. 2013
Bernard Peters Jr. SF, May 2013
Kayla Moore, Berkeley, Feb. 2013
Antonio Guzman Lopez, San Jose, Feb. 2014
Errol Chang, SF March 2014
Alex Nieto, SF, March 2014
James “Nate” Greer, Hayward, May 2014
Oshaine Evans, SF, Oct. 2014
Yanira Serrano, San Mateo, June 2014
Yuvette Henderson, Emeryville, Feb. 2015
Amilcar Perez-Lopez, SF, Feb. 2015
Demouria Hogg, Oakland, June 2015
Mario Woods, SF, Dec. 2015
Luis Gongora Pat, SF, April 2016
Anthony Nuñez, San Jose, July 2016
Mario Martinez, San Jose, May 2017
Joshua Pawlik, Oakland, March 2018
Agustin Gonsalez, Hayward, May 2019
Chinedu Okobi, San Mateo, October 2019
Guadalupe Manzo-Ochoa, Oakland, Dec. 2019
Willie McCoy, Vallejo, Feb. 2019
Steven Taylor, San Leandro, April 2020
Erik Salgado, Oakland, June 2020
Sean Monterrosa, Vallejo, June 2020