On 14 July 2018, 37-year-old Harith Augustus was shot to death by police in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. The killing took place in the context of an ‘investigatory stop’, which began with Augustus fully cooperating, and ended with him shot five times, his firearms license in his hand, and his gun still clipped in its holster.

Join Chicago Humanities for film screenings and a panel conversation exploring police violence and the tragic killing of Harith Augustus. The program includes the excerpts from Six Durations of a Split Second, a collaborative project by the London-based human rights group Forensic Architecture and the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago, that interrogates the legal principle that officers are compelled to make "split second decisions" and that great deference must be shown their perceptions of risk and judgments within the split second.

Following this, filmmaker Bill Morrison, renowned for creating new films from archival footage, screens his latest work INCIDENT (30', 2023), which chronicles the death of Harith Augustus entirely through the use of surveillance camera and body cam footage from police uniforms. The program concludes with a panel discussion with Journalist and founder of the Invisible Institute Jamie Kalven, University of Chicago Associate Professor Adam Green, Data Director at the Invisible Institute trina reynolds-tyler, and Morrison.

• The Richard Gray Program recognizes the significant contributions of CHF founding board member Richard Gray.This program is part of the Social Justice and Equity Series supported by Allstate and ITW.
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