#FreeRayshawn, is not who we usually see in our many discussions of police misconduct targeting Black men. And she certainly wasn’t a force when Cephas Jones signed up to play her.
Today, she’s an Emmy nominee for that role.Against the real-life backdrop of the police murder of George Floyd and demands that both of the Louisville, Kentucky police officers who killed Breonna Taylor, as well as the officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, be arrested, the Quibi short form series, #FreeRayshawn, feels extremely timely.
The series starts with Rayshawn (Stephan James), an Iraq War vet working at a fast food joint, running from the fear that the New Orleans PD will kill him as one of their own fights for his.
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