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Posts Tagged ‘Cops and robbers’

“Cops and Robbers” addresses issues of race, police brutality

By Alsanosi Adam | February 6, 2015
Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira after performing his one man show Cops and Robbers responding to questions from the audiance

A young African American man enters the grocery store, hides behind a shelf, holding in his left hand what appears to be a gun. His hand is shaking. He is breathing heavily, bleeding from an injury, fighting his pain. The young man starts talking to himself. “I was born in jail, I grew up in…

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