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Cop beating child Jesus too much for church

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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.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6890609.html

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