"Operation Small Axe" Film about Police Brutality, Resonates with Communities All Over the Country
Posted by copwatch | Sun, 11/07/2010 - 3:50pm story
Oakland Filmmaker Feels Police Wrath
An Epidemic of Brutality
By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr. NOV 5-7, 2010
Hours after San Francisco Bay Area radio show host J.R. Valrey screened his documentary film about police brutality at a university in Philadelphia daily newspapers in that city carried articles about two separate lawsuits filed against Philly police alleging brutality.
Those lawsuits, filed respectively by a state legislator and a high-profile media commentator (both of whom are black) didn’t surprise Valrey. His travels across America screening his film highlighted for him – again – a reality that governmental officials constantly reject: police brutality is a widespread scourge.