Ava DuVernay wants more accountability in police departments across America, and she’s using her talent and resources to do something about it.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker announced this week that she’s launching the Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), to fund 25 projects, across film, theater, photography, poetry, music, sculpture and dance, over the next two years that will spotlight instances of police brutality and how police officers often aren’t identified after them.
DuVernay says her inspiration for the project came from watching the video of George Floyd’s horrifying death, taken by 17-year-old Darnella Frazier.
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Frazier was walking her nine-year-old cousin to a corner store when she saw Floyd being pulled out of a car.
That’s when she began filming former police officer Derek Chauvin and Floyd, who he pinned under his knee for more than eight minutes.
