Long before the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement, people of color had been dying at the hands of white law enforcement officers for centuries.
The British filmmaker and political activist Ken Fero has been documenting U.K. cases of suspicious deaths in police custody for over 20 years, most notably in his controversial debut feature Injustice (2001).
Co-directed with Tariq Mehmood, that film earned positive reviews and widespread festival screenings, but its release was seriously stifled by threats of legal action from official police bodies, who claimed it was not just libelous but could incite riots.
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