sentences:  120 scholars and critics published an open letter to the Whitney Museum asking for the removal of Kanders from the Museum board; additional signatories after the letter's initial posting included almost fifty artists who have been selected for the 2019 Whitney Biennial.A series of nine weeks of protest by Decolonize This Place highlighted the use of Safariland weapons against protestors and others in Palestine and other places.On July 17, 2019, calls for Kanders's resignation were renewed following Artforum's publication of an essay, "The Tear Gas Biennial," by Hannah Black, Ciarán Finlayson, and Tobi Haslett.