seven lives lost in that horrific july 4th shooting, and demand action on gun violence prevention. what police initiated a car chase which would allow them to pull over and arrest the 21-year-old who conducted one of the worst mass shootings in highland history. he was, quote, taken into custody without incident. and days earlier, just a few states over an acre, in ohio, another police chase ended very differently. on january excuse me, on june 27th, jalen walker, eight a 25-year-old black man ll by couple ease after they said they tried to pull him over for alleged traffic and equipment violation for just after the midnight. and he refused to stop, a chastened shoot. that s when officers reported, quote, fired from walker jumped out of the car and the pursuit continued on foot. and a newly released body cam video, you can see the moments leading up to walker s death. and we should warn you here, what you are about to see is disturbing. we re slowing down here, slowing
russian s a prisoner swap. perhaps an exchange for victor and notorious russian arms dealer known as the merchant of death. moscow in the u.s. state department are remaining tightlipped about any such negotiations. coming up on this hour of a man, two recent police encounters demonstrate again that america is too vastly different systems of justice. plus, georgia s grand jury goes in on my conversation with director about his recent success and muslim representation in hollywood. i m ayman let s get started. muslim representation in just hours ago, hundreds of gun violence survivors, local activists, community members, gather together in highland park, illinois, two under the
had a chance to see it. but it focused on 200 top grossing films from around the world between 2017 and 2019. and it found that muslims were less than 2% of more than 8000 speaking characters, and when they were shown, the muslim characters were stereotyped as outsiders threatening or subservient, particularly to the white characters. what impact does this absence of representation and misrepresent representation have on muslims everywhere? i think that the fact that muslims is a part part of the world, it s such a small part of the movie industry, and it causes and effect that you know, as a group, muslims will feel isolated because people don t necessarily know muslims, they only know them through movies, that s a very narrow image of them. we tried to do in our work is
franchised, bad boys for, life which was the highest grossing domestic film in 2020. his story a muslim boy s future premiered at the cannes film festival, and he s personally in post-production on bat girl such a be released later this year. if that s not enough, he is now working as an executive producer and director for ms. marvel on disney+. it s a critically acclaimed show about a muslim teenager with superpowers. i spoke with him earlier about his blockbuster of the year. thank you so much for joining, us it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i wanted to ask you what inspired you to take on this project that really leads into muslim identity, unlike a lot of shows out, there it s not secondary, but it s actually central to the plot and the defining aspect of the main character, ms. marvel? hi, hello, lovely to meet
to really show that diversity of the muslim culture, whether it s a movie or tv show like ms. marvel where you just see normal teenage girl who happens to be a pakistani muslim girl that navigates throughout this same struggles as everybody, it s a pretty universal story to tell. or movie like what we did rebel that premiered and can that really talked about extremism, what happened in syria, but you see it through the muslim lens, and how complex it, is and how muslims are victims of that extremism. i think it s important to include the stories more in the cinema of today. you know one of the things that i liked about the shows that it doesn t shy away from sensitive parts of history. it touches on the partition of india, i don t want to give away too much of the plot line, but her powers come from a bangle that belong to her great grandmother who disappeared during the partition. what is it like taking on such