![]() “People in black communities don’t feel that there is a justice system that supports them. “If you look at the statistics on police shootings in the last 15 years, there are 179 police-related deaths, and only three of these led to charges, and only one led to a conviction,” Broomfield noted. Nick Broomfield, the 66-year-old Santa Monica–based British expat known for relentlessly probing true-crime docs such as Kurt & Courtney and Biggie & Tupac, sees the link between his film and ongoing national anxieties about law enforcement. realized a serial killer was targeting black women in South Central in 1985, they did not alert the community to that fact until 2007-after the murders had been occurring for 22 years. The man arrested was Lonnie Franklin, nicknamed “The Grim Sleeper” because it was initially thought he took a 14-year hiatus from killing. Shortlisted for an Academy Award and coming to theaters December 19, the film documents the confounding apathetic investigation of an alleged Los Angeles serial killer, who has been accused of 12 murders between the mid-80s and 2010. As protests against the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police spread across the United States, Nick Broomfield’s documentary Tales of the Grim Sleeper could not be more timely.
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