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New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: “Down A Dark Stairwell” Chronicles Two Communities In Uproar After An Asian Police Officer Murders An Unarmed Black Man

Malika HarrisUpdated on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell of a New York City housing project on November 20, 2014, communities across the city erupt with demands for legal accountability.