chuck – The Philadelphia Observer http://philadelphiaobserver.com Just another WordPress site Sun, 16 Jan 2022 23:11:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Chuck D produced ‘Use of Force’ documentary examines police brutality and reform http://philadelphiaobserver.com/chuck-d-produced-use-of-force-documentary-examines-police-brutality-and-reform/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:55:16 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=3310 EXCLUSIVE: The trailer of the documentary that examines police brutality against Black men and women dropped Tuesday

Ahead of this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a new documentary on police brutality will stream to Peacock. Produced by Public Enemy frontman Chuck DUse of Force: The Policing of Black America premieres on the streaming service on Friday.

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Use of Force: The Policing of Black America will examine how Black men, women and people of color have been drastically and disproportionately subjected to and affected by police brutality. Chuck D also narrates the film, highlighting how the names of Black victims of violence from law enforcement flood the headlines, news feeds, and social media.

The deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Sean Bell, and many others are covered here, as many are interviewed, and the circumstances of these cases are examined. In addition, the film will also discuss the protest movements, particularly Black Lives Matter, that have arisen from these incidents.Demonstrators march away from the Lincoln Memorial while protesting against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

As seen in the trailer, viewers will be reacquainted with the brutal footage of viral videos that captured the killings of Floyd, Castile, Walter Scott, and others, while also seeing footage and imagery of protests from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and Black Lives Matter protests for Floyd and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MS.

“Black communities have a deep-rooted fear of being treated unfairly by police,” Chuck D narrates. “Today’s political environment has carried on the tradition of protecting those who have been accused of excessive force.”

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