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Justice for Shane

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#JusticeForShane
#ForShane
by Ryan Netterville
(with Karen Van Fossan)


  • Winter 2023
  • Introduction
  • Home is Where Your Dog is
  • nature
  • Justice for Shane
  • Things We Learnt From Each Other
  • Dakota Estates
  • Take a Stand & Love for All
  • Return to Oz (Pulse)
  • Pro-Abortion
  • Red Raven Espresso Parlor
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  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Another Shooting
  • Captain Fantasy
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  • Closure

At age 28, Shane Netterville was shot and killed by a Fargo Police Officer, just a few weeks before his birthday. Following the shooting this past summer, his brother Ryan Netterville created this artwork in Shane’s honor.

Shane had two bear paws on his chest. I was talking about it to my sister, and in memory of him, I’m going to get this on my chest whenever I can afford to get it done. I might tweak it and make it more simple. The other bear paw, with all the initials, that’s the last of us that are still alive: Gary, Matt, me, Jolissa, and Maven. We’re the perfect number now to fit on the five finger parts. That’s the rest of the kids that are still alive.

I made it because for our mom’s grave, that plastic thing they put on the ground, the marker, was busted up. I didn’t want that for Shane. I wanted something that will last, something nice for the family. The picture of him is from the obituary. Those are the only pictures I actually have of Shane. I put hooks on there, because I thought of everyone else – if other people want to put stuff there, too. I included the Medicine Wheel, but we don’t know much about all of our Native heritage, because we don’t talk as a family about that. I also hung some feathers on it.

Statement

Honestly, with this whole thing and how everything’s gone on, I feel like I died that day, too. I want no recognition. You could put Anonymous on it, and it wouldn’t bother me. It’s just something I wanted to do for him, something that needed to be done for Shane. It’s one last thing I can do.

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