Lee Phenner's Reel

It’s 2012, with racial tensions in America escalating and about to explode. White police sergeant Tim O’Connor arrests African American scholar Chester Washington III for breaking into what turns out to be his own house — in one of America’s most progressive cities. A media frenzy erupts when the professor’s daughter Chloe’s video commentary goes viral, and U.S. President Michael Rivera weighs in with comments that, taken out of context, seem critical of the police. Trying to...