Sharjah24 – Reuters: Actor Morgan Freeman is bringing the conversation about racism and police brutality to the big screen, as the executive producer of "The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain."
Actor Morgan Freeman helps tackle the themes of racism and police brutality on the big screen as executive producer of “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” - the true story of a 68-year-old Black veteran who was fatally shot by police dispatched to his home for a welfare check in White Plains, New York.
The movie recreates the final hours of Chamberlain's life, after his medical alert device was mistakenly activated in the early morning of November 19, 2011.
One year after protests swept the U.S. in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Freeman says the film is a reminder of how far American society has left to go to seek justice for police killings of Black people.
Ten years after his father's death, Chamberlain's son Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., now a civil rights activist, claims the police officers who were dispatched to his father's home for the welfare check escalated the situation rather than diffusing it.
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain" is out in theaters and on demand Friday, September 17th.
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