A new PSA titled “Against the Wall,” includes stars such as Michael B. Jordan, Michael K. Williams, and Danny Glover. The powerful piece places audio excerpts from police radio accounts of unarmed black men being shot and killed by officers with artfully shot footage of the famous personalities, also including activists Van Jones and Marc Lamont Hill, held up against a wall, playing the roles of victims of police violence.
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The video starts out with talking about a large number of murdered black men in America but as the video progresses, it is clear that it references blacks shot by law enforcement.
There were 6000 blacks killed by other blacks in 2015 alone. In that same year, there were 258 blacks killed by police.
This PSA is focusing on “unarmed” blacks killed by police. In 2015, that was 38.