Filmmaker Malini Schueller's short documentary exposé offers a footnote to the rash of highly publicized police shootings of unarmed black men in America, detailing a March 2010 incident on the University of Florida campus (where Schueller herself is an instructor/author) that has gone largely unnoticed. Kofi Adu Brempong was a graduate student from Ghana, crippled by polio, who was working on his PhD. But afflicted with paranoia and having an apparent mental breakdown, he was the subject of a 911 call by a panicked neighbor. Campus police—including one with a particularly ugly record—responded with deadly force when Brempong did not visibly react to being tasered. That he survived the gunfire at all is something of a miracle. Unfortunately, neither Brempong nor University of Florida police are interviewed here. Still, even this fragmentary presentation paints a distressing picture (with racist overtones) of overzealous law enforcement. Extras include additional scenes. A strong optional purchase. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady)
In His Own Home
(2015) 31 min. DVD: $24.95. IndiePix (avail. from most distributors). Volume 33, Issue 2
In His Own Home
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