00:00She picked her side.
00:02I walk, I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
00:06Murder is murder. Don't matter who you are.
00:11How do you feel being a part of this and knowing that this is something that is speaking to what's happening to black people with police?
00:17Well, it's one of the main reasons I wanted to be part of it because I think so often, you know, we go to the movies and it's almost like we're expected to switch off part of our brains.
00:25And here is a movie that actually says, no, you can go and be entertained and also speak about things that are socially relevant and encourage dialogue around things that are really socially relevant as well.
00:36And also inspire people, you know, because ultimately this isn't giving you answers, but it's saying, please go away and discuss and think about all of these issues that are happening in the moment.
00:46And I'm really proud. That's exactly the kind of movie I want to be part of.
00:49I was able to think about the spirit of Eric Garner and you think of Tamir Rice, you think of, you know, Mrs. Jefferson out of Dallas.
01:00I came into this thing being born and raised in Watts knowing that I'm carrying a torch where there's a lot of people out here that will say, you know, it's really sad to see what they are dealing with because they don't know what it is to be black in America.
01:16Right now there's a divide in the country between black and blue.
01:19Me being from Gary, Indiana, my entire life I was raised like to walk the other way when you see a police officer.
01:25I can't even tell you how many opportunities, how many times I've had troubles with police officers.
01:30But what the movie wants to do is basically say to you, there shouldn't be a black and blue divide.
01:35There should be a world right now where black and blue should be coming together.
01:39The community should be not scared of police and police should not be scared of community.
01:43And that's been going on since we've been this little.
01:46Right.
01:47So why is it like that?
01:48Right.
01:49So what has to happen is I'm going to give you the answer for change, which is we need to actually start really getting out here as a people in our communities,
01:56in the communities like Gary, Indiana, in the communities like Oakland, in South Central L.A.
02:01And we need to actually begin to vote for the politicians that are running our areas.
02:06I feel like it was my duty to do this film considering where we are as a country.
02:12Tatiana, that really, I mean, it's all been bothering me and obviously has made me like literally sick to my stomach where it's made me angry.
02:22And I feel like I put that anger into the film and hopefully it'll spark change.
02:28I'm sick of us losing our brothers and sisters.
02:31I'm sick of worrying about if it could be me next or if it could be my brother next or my little nephew next.
02:36Yeah.
02:37So it is our job to create and spark change.
02:41Like I get emotional when I talk about it because I'm tired of talking about it.
02:45Well, unfortunately, you know, we want to try and change the dynamic of things and the paradigm.
02:50We bring it into a very extremely important narrative about what's going on in the African American community.
02:56A lot of our counterparts, Caucasian white people, they know but they don't know.
03:01And some of them know and they turn their eye to it and they shouldn't because injustice is injustice.
03:04And a very important thing, the only character, Alicia West says in the movie is murder is murder no matter who does it.
03:11So once you commit a crime, you're not a cop or anything no more.
03:14You're a criminal.
03:15You see?
03:16So, you know, with that narrative in place, that's very important in this film.
03:19So people can take that, dissect that, bring that back into where they're from and then start there.
03:24Because you've got to start within.
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