Detroit

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, I went to see the movie Detroit, featuring John Boyega.

The movie is about the riots in Detroit in 1967 and the story is centred around the incidents at the Algiers Motel, where three African-American men were found shot dead and several other African-American men as well as two white women were brutally beaten.

While this movie is based on the incident and the trials after, some parts were fictionalized and/or dramatized for the purposes of the movie, as there was not enough documentation for the incident so some of it was done with accounts of the individuals.

This movie was incredibly well done and very powerful.  It reminded me of the extreme white privilege that white Americans have and especially if they were on the police force.  It made me think of the numerous incidents that I have read about happening in the United States and even in Canada.

One woman was in tears at the end of the movie because she had a cousin whom she lost to police brutality.  She stated that she saw her cousin in the movie.