The director cut together footage from his 1989 movie 'Do the Right Thing' with scenes of George Floyd and Eric Garner's deaths at the hands of police officers.
released a short film likening George Floyd and Eric Garner's deaths to that of Radio Raheem, a character in his 1989 movieAs protests against the death of Floyd continue across the nation and world, Lee released the titled,.
Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, died on May 25 after an officer held his knee to Floyd's neck for several minutes. The incident was caught on video by multiple bystanders and released across social media, leading to an intense response across the U.S. and beyond. Garner died under similar circumstances in 2014, after being arrested in Staten Island, New York. The officer involved was not charged.
“How can people not understand why people are acting the way they are?" Lee told CNN’s Don Lemon in an interview. "This is not new, we saw with the riots in the '60s, the assassination of Dr. King, every time something jumps off and we don’t get our justice, people are reacting they way they do to be heard…We are seeing this again and again and again… This is the thing: The killing of black bodies, that is what this country is built upon.
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