BET Shines a Mild on Police Brutality with Copwatch America
NEW YORK, NY Tuesday, October 22, 2019 – TODAY BET NETWORKS introduced that “COPWATCH AMERICA,” a riveting new docuseries taking a provocative and compelling look into the women and men on the entrance traces battling injustice by the hands of these sworn to guard, will premiere Wednesday, October 23 at 11:00 p.m. on BET. Click on on the under hyperlink to look at and share a primary look clip of “COPWATCH AMERICA”: https://www.wager.com/video/copwatch/season-1/exclusives/a-mother-joins-the-movement-on-copwatch-america.html.
Making its unique debut on BET, COPWATCH AMERICA follows citizen-whistleblowers who’ve taken up a every day combat to guard their group’s lives and rights and maintain regulation enforcement abuses of energy in examine.
“Far too typically, contact between regulation enforcement and black civilians ends in violence in opposition to harmless members of our group. It’s our hope that this first-of-its-kind-exposé sheds mild on the problem, supplies options and fosters a requirement for accountability and justice,” stated BET Networks president Scott Mills.
Throughout 10 action-packed episodes, viewers get in-depth, unique behind-the-scenes entry to “copwatchers” who work diligently to fight police misconduct. Cross-cutting between New York and Atlanta, viewers will observe a various group of passionate and revolutionary activists who, armed with cameras, combat for justice for victims of police brutality. Their filming is just not solely exposing express circumstances that might in any other case go neglected, but in addition shaking up the political local weather and elevating the collective consciousness of communities nation-wide.
Within the premiere episode, audiences are launched to ‘Metropolis’ and Shar, Atlanta-based copwatchers with The Motion Household, who lead radical social justice efforts by guerilla activism. To raise public consciousness on the standing of negligent policing of their group, they defiantly set a banner on the freeway that claims, “Welcome to Atlanta House of Police Terrorism.” In the meantime, motion jumps off in New York Metropolis as copwatchers Hawk and Nupol (Chairman and President respectively, Black Lives Matter-Higher NY) stage a protest that shuts down site visitors on a significant New York Metropolis freeway. The demonstration was held in assist of the motion to have Daniel Pantaleo (NYPD Officer accused of chokehold dying of Eric Garner) fired. Each ways are high-risk actions that would lead to felony expenses and arrests, however these fearless crusaders for justice stay resolute of their trigger, placing their lives on the road to influence change in opposition to what many take into account a corrupt system of regulation enforcement.
COPWATCH AMERICA is produced by Famend Movies and Crucial Content material for BET Networks. Government produced by Tom Forman, Jenny Daly, Jon Beyer and Sonia Slutsky, who additionally serves as showrunner for Crucial Content material. Max Welch, Duane Jones and Tim Withers function government producers for Famend Movies. Co-executive producers are P. Frank Williams and Lorna Anozie.
For extra data on COPWATCH AMERICA go to www.wager.com/copwatch and be a part of the dialog throughout BET social platforms (Fb, Twitter, Instagram) through the use of the hashtag #COPWATCHAMERICA.
