What did Michael Stewart do?
On September 15th, 1983, in the early hours of the morning, the aspiring artist, model, and DJ Michael Stewart was arrested. Allegedly, he had been tagging a wall in a subway station. Michael was beaten by police officers from the New York City Transit Authority. He was handcuffed. Caption. The Man Nobody Killed pays homage to the life and protests around the death of Michael Stewart, an artist and model who was arrested by the New York City Transit Police for writing graffiti on a subway station wall. Stewart was brutally beaten outside the subway station, and again outside the police station.