Those pictures are art because they support all the three art criticism theories. It is difficult to evaluate the artworks from a formal point, because these days lots of artist combined more than one picture to make one piece of art so it is difficult to have an unique style. However, how the artist plugged in the police officer in the pictures, makes those pictures unique. From a contextual point, those old picture represent innocent, unarmed, and peaceful people. The police officer in this case is the bad person. The artist transmits the bad image of a police officer doing bad deeds. Finally from an expressive point, the artist, probably a student, wanted to give a support for the students and also to show the bad side of police officers.
Those pictures were made for a social cause. To show people how police officers sometimes act when they feel overpower. Furthermore, what makes the police officer look like a "devil" is the fact that the students was using nonviolent methods to protest.
Recreating art and using memes are not plagiarism. Artist combined different tips of artwork to built one single art, making it an unique piece of art. Unless you take another artist artwork and do not modified, we will call it plagiarism.
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