Documentary and Public Forum on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities

With filmmakers Emmitt Thrower and Leroy Moore, and also La Mesha Irizarry, Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, and David Perry.

The documentary “Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder” chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who have fought and are fighting against police brutality against people with disabilities. Emmitt H Thrower, a retired NY City cop turned artist/filmmaker, Leroy Moore, founder of Krip Hop Nation, La Mesha Irizarry, founder of the Idriss Steeley Foundation, and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia of Poor Magazine intend the film as a tool to facilitate forums with discussions around this topic.

Thrower, Moore, Irizarry and Gray-Garcia will be joined by disability rights journalist and history professor David Perry.

This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair-accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products so that people with chemical sensitivities can join us. If you need any other disability accommodations in order to attend, including communication services, please contact Susan Schweik at sschweik@berkeley.edu.

Sponsored by: Disability Rights Education Defense Fund (DREDF); Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley; Haas Institute Disability Studies Cluster, UC Berkeley; Nailah Suad Nasir, Birgeneau Chair, Haas Institute Educational Disparities Cluster, UC Berkeley

For more information on the film, check out the Facebook group
Where is Hope Documentary on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/450516871652353/