T-shirt with "I Can't Breathe" worn and signed by Derrick Rose during warm-ups
- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- Fruit of the Loom, founded 1851
- Worn by
- Derrick Rose, American, born 1988
- Subject of
- Garner, Eric, 1970 - 2014
- Chicago Bulls, American, founded 1966
- Date
- December 6, 2014
- Medium
- cotton, metallic ink
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (on form): 31 × 26 1/2 × 12 in. (78.7 × 67.3 × 30.5 cm)
- H x W x D (flat): 32 × 37 × 1/8 in. (81.3 × 94 × 0.3 cm)
- Caption
- Before the Chicago Bulls' December 6, 2014 game against the Golden State Warriors, Derrick Rose came out of the tunnel for warm-ups wearing this shirt that read "I Can't Breathe." It was a reference to the non-indictment of a New York City police officer in the choking death of Eric Garner a week prior.
- Description
- A black t-shirt worn by NBA basketball player Derrick Rose during warm-ups before a game when he played with the Chicago Bulls. The shirt has the text "I / CAN'T / BREATHE" printed across the front in white text that fades out from top proper right to bottom proper left. Rose signed the shirt, including his number 1, in silver metallic ink on the proper left front shoulder. A Fruit of the Loom manufacturer's label with fiber content, size, style, and care information is sewn at the interior center back neck.
- Place used
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Clothing - Sports Uniforms
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- t-shirts
- Topic
- Activism
- Basketball
- Clothing and dress
- Justice
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Resistance
- Sports
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Anonymous gift
- Object number
- 2015.121
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.