{"id":745469,"date":"2022-01-12T00:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-peacock-acquires-documentary-use-of-force-the-policing-of-black-america\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T00:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:31:55","slug":"watch-peacock-acquires-documentary-use-of-force-the-policing-of-black-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-peacock-acquires-documentary-use-of-force-the-policing-of-black-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Peacock acquires documentary &#039;Use of Force: The Policing of Black America&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Peacock-acquires-documentary-Use-of-Force-The-Policing-of-Black-America.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Peacock has acquired documentary <i>Use of Force: The Policing of Black America<\/i> and will release the film on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary will explore police brutality against people of color and how to address the issue.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hip-hop legend Chuck D serves as narrator and co-produced the project, which was written and directed by Cary Grant Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for the film features footage of protests that took place across the U.S. following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As reports of fatal police violence continue to flood the headlines, <i>Use of Force: The Policing of Black America<\/i> shines a light on not only the circumstances of these cases but how to improve the system as a whole and heal the communities they impact.,&#8221; reads a synopsis.<\/p>\n<p><i>Use of Force: The Policing of Black America<\/i> will feature interviews with law enforcement, former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, mother of shooting victim Sean Bell, Valerie Bell, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza, former police chief of Linden, N.J., Jonathan Parham and more.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-block embed-object\">[embedded content]<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Peacock has acquired documentary Use of Force: The Policing of Black America and will release the film on Friday. The documentary will explore police brutality against people of color and how to address the issue. Advertisement Hip-hop legend Chuck D serves as narrator and co-produced the project, which was written and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}