Noah added in how he finds it astonishing that police can mistake other items for weapons, “except their own gun.”

“And by the way, don’t you find it amazing that cops think everything is a gun, except their own gun. You have a cellphone in your hand, ‘oh that’s a gun!’ You’re holding a wallet, ‘oh that’s a gun!’ Their own gun? No, not a gun, not a gun,” he continued.

In 2016, white artist and self-proclaimed ally, Cara Levine, created an initiative entitled This Is Not A Gun to promote awareness of the basic objects that police have “mistaken” for guns, resulting in the shootings of unarmed Black people.

“This Is Not A Gun is a socially engaged artwork whose purpose is to utilize collective creative activism to open space for healing and cultivate an increased awareness around racial profiling, police brutality, and societal trauma in America,” the initiative's mission statement reads.

Some of the items police have perceived as guns include a sandwich, a toy truck, a bottle of cologne and a hairbrush, amongst others.

“Often my work comes from a problem that I can’t reconcile, that I’m working over in my head, like, how do I understand this? For me, it was I don’t understand how anybody could have ever mistaken any of these objects as a gun,” Levine said, The Guardian reported. “So I thought if I could slow myself down and understand the objects and recreate them in my studio, make these objects very diligently and slowly through the wood carving process, maybe then I could understand how somebody could possibly make this mistake.”

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