Cop beating child Jesus too much for church
The elders at Ecclesia Church in Houston TX were expecting something tame from Jackson Potts II for their annual Stations of the Cross art display. Instead, the 10-year-old produced a photo of his screaming kid brother Dietrich being beaten by a police officer. Jackson says it is a modern-day interpretation of Roman soldiers beating Jesus. Jackson, who was tasked with depicting Jesus falling for a second time under the weight of his cross, batted around ideas for weeks. He settled on covering Dietrich with fake blood and posing him with an adult friend wearing a police officer's uniform. “It is the innocence of Jesus as a child,” Jackson said. “And a policeman is like a Roman guard.” Jackson and his father, also a photographer, are holding out hope the church will allow the photo to hang during the city's FotoFest, a biannual photography celebration that runs until the end of April. The church agreed to display it during a reception on 12 March 2010 and put it on the gallery's web site. "I just want them to display it," Jackson said.
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