Ava DuVernay has shared memories of her childhood interactions with the police, including one traumatising incident in which she saw her father tackled to the ground.“Police came into our backyard… and I remember coming out of the house and seeing my father – my proud, beautiful father – on the ground in our own backyard, wrestled to the ground by police,” DuVernay told Oprah Winfrey during the first of two OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?
TV specials. The Selma director added the cops explained her father “fit the description of someone who was running in through the neighbourhood”.DuVernay, who has been a loud voice amid the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota, said.
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