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Ava DuVernay launches Law Enforcement Accountability Project

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Ava Duvernay has launched The Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), a new media initiative to keep watch on police abuse and malpractice.Police brutality and racial prejudice in U.S.

law enforcement and the justice system have dominated headlines across the globe since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month (May 2020).In an appearance on Monday’s (June 8, 2020), Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ava announced the creation of LEAP, a fund focused on storytelling around police violence and abuse that will commission projects across film, literature, theatre, dance, fine art and music.Explaining how the harrowing images of the unarmed African-American man’s death inspired her into action,.

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