Black Lives Matter: Has the Story Changed?
Has the story changed? “Officers of the New York City Police Department, your hands are dripping with blood.” An all too familiar line shot across the courthouse steps during Kevin Hooks' seminal 1992 film featuring Cuba Gooding Jr., Carla Gugino, and the late Broadway star Curtis McClain. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Edmund Perry. The story hasn’t changed. While Murder Without Motive is nearly 20 years old and was released in 1992, the year of the, L.A. Riots, it seems this story is all too familiar. In the summer of 1985, Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old Harlem resident and honor student, bound for Stanford University in the Fall, was gunned down by a plainclothes police officer. The death of George Floyd, like the death of so many at the hands of police officers, has again sparked nationwide protests and demonstrations, devolving into a storm of vitriol, hate, confusion, and ultimately violence and destruction. Ge