Six years ago, Eric Garner — a 43-year-old Black man — died after being placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer. His final words: “I can’t breathe.” At the time, David Oyelowo was promoting his role as Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma”, the Ava DuVernay-directed film about the slain civil rights icon’s famed marches from Selma, Alabama to to state capitol of Montgomery.
In a “Screen Talks” Q&A that also included actors Noel Clarke and Andrea Riseborough, Oyelowo revealed that he and his fellow cast members decided to address Garner’s death by wearing “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts to the film’s premiere.
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