fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoThe world needs to know what happened to my baby': inside devastating new police-body-cam film The Perfect Neighbor
To this day, says Geeta Gandbhir, I'm devastated. The film-maker is talking about the killing of Ajike AJ Owens, a black woman shot dead by her white neighbour in Florida two years ago. Gandbhir first came to the case in a personal capacity, as 35-year-old Owens was a family friend. But things quickly changed. She and her team worked hard to drum up media attention and pressure law enforcement and government institutions to take action and hold this neighbour, 60-year-old Susan Lorincz, accountable.
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