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Defender

(Defender)
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Original Title : Defender
Time : 81 Min
Genre : Documentary, Crime
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2017
Director : Jeff Adachi, Jim Choi
Writer : No data available
Producer : Jeff Adachi
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : Adachi represents a young African American man who is charged with assaulting police officers after being falsely accused of a crime in a case with racial overtones. In this era of mass incarceration and police shootings of young African ...See moreAdachi represents a young African American man who is charged with assaulting police officers after being falsely accused of a crime in a case with racial overtones. In this era of mass incarceration and police shootings of young African American men, how do we, as a society, grapple with the issues of racism and implicit bias in policing and its consequences for those who question police authority? The film also follows the Public Defender's public battle to allow his office to represent immigrants in deportation proceedings in post-Trump America. Over 1,000 immigrants in the San Francisco immigration court are detained without lawyers; Adachi and other city leaders mobilize the community to support an initiative to provide public defenders to poor immigrants and their families. Written by Jeff Adachi See less Read more: Plot summary

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