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29 Dec 2017

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SYNOPSIS

PROFILED is a 53 minute documentary about racial profiling and police brutality. It knits the stories of mothers of black and Latin youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S.

Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, PROFILED bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for black and Latin people in this country and gives us a window on one of the burning issues of our time.

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We experience the grief families suffer in the face of such tragedies, the struggles women confront raising children in segregated neighborhoods that present few options for the young, and their anger at a justice system that often seems pitted against them.

The women organize vigils and rallies to keep the memory of their loved ones alive and seek indictments of the officers responsible for the deaths. As their demands for justice are ignored we see them transition from grieving parents to activists who join the growing grass roots movement against police brutality and racial profiling that, since the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown is now spreading across the country.
 


STILLS from the film

 

- An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.-  Million March NYC 2015-12-23
-I'm scared for my little brother that he might get shot.-  Mothers at Million March NYC 2015
Juanita and Nicholas, parents.  Margartia Rosario's house with mural of her son & nephew
-Kimani Gray, 2nd Anniversary 2015  Mothers demand indictments.  Department of Justice NYC  2015
Natasha Duncan, -The NYPD are uniting us boro by boro, city by city, coast by coast. And they don't know how big this  is going to be.- 2013  -On Black Friday, we closed down three Malls.-
Vigil for Anthony Rosario, Hilton Vega murdered 1995  Some of Eric Garners last words.
-We've got the names of the officers.-  Justice for Eric Garner Banner

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