FAULT LINES – MOMENT OF RECKONING

Director(s): Kavitha Chekuru
Producer(s): Laila Al-Arian

2020 | 26 min | USA
Languages: English

Do police reforms work? Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, 2020 has seen what is likely the largest wave of protests in United States history: all centred on the crisis of police killing Black people. or years, officials have introduced police reforms. But reforms have failed to stop police from killing Black people in astonishingly high numbers, people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Marqueese Alston – shot in Washington, DC in 2018. The failure of reforms has driven protesters to a more radical demand: defund the police.