Tiphereth Banks opens her eyes for a moment during a photo shoot near 13th and Broadway in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, June 5, 2020. Banks, an artist and student, is painting a mural a block away. Artists have been creating art to remember George Floyd and other Black people murdered by policer other injustices. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last week.

“I don’t feel our community is as united as it would like to be and they always choose the most chaotic moments to come together and they always choose destruction, murder — everything violent — to have a reason to unify and then after it’s over they separate again. It’s a constant cycle. You feel like you don’t need nobody until you need somebody. George needed you every day, and you came after he died. There will never be another George Floyd situation if y’all make sure y’all are unified.”