Ava DuVernay Talks About Her Own “Traumatizing” Experiences With Police Aggression
Despite the protests and the killing of George Floyd being the latest news to come up in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement and the systemic racism that plagues the US, the stories of Black people being targeted by police is nothing new. Spike Lee recently made that abundantly clear with his video tying together the events of Floyd’s death with a scene from his 1989 film, “Do The Right Thing.” And now, “Selma” filmmaker Ava DuVernay recently opened up about the racism she faced as a child and how she grew up knowing the things that people are just now starting to realize.