Kenya Barris creator of BlackAF and Blackish is making a documentary on high-profile attorney Ben Crump. Crump is currently representing the grieving families of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, among others.
The documentary will be produced by Barris and Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams. Williams received two Emmy nominations for the Michelle Obama documentary Becoming, Nadia Hallgren is set to direct the documentary. Hallgren will also produce, along with Lauren Cioffi and EP Geoff Martz, co-founder with Williams of production shingle One Story Up.
The doc will include one of the the many memorial services held for George Floyd. Crump and filmmakers on the documentary’s team were in attendance. In addition to George Floyd’s family, relatives of Arbery, Botham Jean, Eric Garner and other killed by police brutality were there too. George Floyd was killed in the streets by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day.
The murder of Floyd sparked outrage which caused protests and marches across the nation and the world against racism and social injustice. The murder was caught on onlookers phones. We all watched in horror for 8:46 as Floyd begged for his life and even calling out to his deceased mother.
Derek Chauvin and the other three cops involved have since been fired and arrested to await trial. Chauvin, who pressed his knee down on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes despite pleas from the now deceased, is charged with one count each of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Ex-officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao have all been charged with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter.
In the murder of EMT Taylor, who was shot in her apartment on March 13 by Louisville Metro Police Department cops during a no-knock raid which was the wrong address, no arrest have been made. Over 150 days after that act of fatal violence, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer finally sat down with Taylor’s family this week. A move that Crump and Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer said in a statement yesterday made them “more confident that the truth will come out and that justice will be served.â€
Crump is the founder and principal owner of Ben Crump Law and is also producer, author and owner of production company Brooklyn Media.
