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‘12 Years A Slave’ Screenwriter John Ridley On Processing Yet Another Shocking Police Shooting & Protest Aftermath: Guest Column
John Ridley The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture. How, then, to process this latest viral incident three months later, when Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, WI, is shot seven times by a police officer as he tries to get in his car, his three sons sitting in the backseat? Deadline asked Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley to offer some perspective for Hollywood.
