Producer, director, and filmmaker Ava DuVernay is using her gifts to further amplify stories of those impacted by police brutality and injustice.
The “When They See Us” creator started the Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP) in an effort to pave the way for “storytelling through the lens of police accountability.”
“LEAP is specifically looking at storytelling through the lens of police accountability,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published June 8.
“There is a lack of accountability happening at police departments, police unions and in the courts, a lack of laws on the books that really protect citizens from officers who have a certain number of grievances.
DuVernay was inspired to create the initiative, which will operate through her Array media company, after watching the cellphone footage of George Floyd‘s death throes under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman and realizing that in many of the cases of police brutality against Black people, the cops involved end up remaining largely nameless and faceless when compared with their victims.
