“To Take Their Breath Away” shows a backyard BBQ of police officers, welcoming in a new recruit (center). We are so close that it is only their arms and hands that we see. Tattooed on their arms are all their thoughts and excuses for why they may not speak up about, or attempt to do something about, problems of white supremacy, corruption, brutality in the police force. The red solo cups have “qualified immunity” written on them. The man on the left is coloring the US Flag into the colors of the Blue Lives Matter flag. We read the different excuses and thoughts on the arms from experienced officers, with the new recruit and his hopes and ideals in the center. By the time we read the tattoos on the right hand side, we discover that there are police officers who are wanting to step forward, and who will, come what may. “To Take Their Breath Away” is also meant to echo “I can’t breathe” a phrase spoken by many of the victims of police violence before they die. It can also express the officers’ desire to do their job so well that others are impressed, but ends up becoming, in some ways, a justification for their violence. They “were just doing their job". The latin phrase (Spiritus Eorum Auferte) has been placed as the badge or emblem on their sleeves—-both to “do an amazing job” and to literally take breath away.