Spike Lee has released a short film as protests against the death of George Floyd continue, which equates Floyd’s treatment at the hands of police with Eric Garner’s and Radio Raheem, the character in Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing.
Lee released the film, which he called 3 Brothers, during an appearance on CNN as part of a special report on the protests engulfing the US.
Floyd died on 25 May in Minneapolis; a white police office has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
Garner died in 2014 after being arrested in Staten Island, New York, and the officer involved, Daniel Pantaleo, was not charged.