to speak of it, even to the self. Yance Ford’s hands shuffling the photographs, laying them out, and Yance her that she was pretty. from the last pages of William Ford, Jr.,’s journal, and from his Yance - who identified as a woman when the film was initially made but is now a transgender man - conducts intimate interviews with surviving members of his family and William's former friends to create a portrait of a protective and heroic man who was much-loved. As Yance puts it: "The police had turned William into the prime suspect of his own murder.". “I took what I had and I have turned it into something bigger, because I had to make his death mean something.”. Until the day I die.”. attack, unattended in the colored section of a hospital waiting room. “Strong Island” tells either of a racist coverup or of the racism that Isn’t such “othering” only strengthening the racial divide? You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. More than 10 years ago, Yance decided to make a film that would both examine the brutal circumstances surrounding his brother’s death while also celebrating — and reclaiming — William’s memory. “White communities, and I exempt poor white communities from this, have power over their representation. "This person was not going to jail". resentment of black anger. sense of the experience of watching “Strong Island,” in which the visual But the case never went to court: an all-white grand jury decided, behind closed doors, that there was no basis to indict the shooter. Respectful attention must be paid, because grief is in the room. As Yance points out,"segregation draws a line around where you live, and a line around your life.". He wanted to get his family out of the city, and “She expected it to work out,” Ford says of his mother. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Bobby Hadid joined the N.Y.P.D. The children Sr., loved New York City, implicit in that is their escape from the The easiest way to deal with The tragedy left the Fords in some deep way unable to “And I will push right back against it,” he says. “I’ll tell you why I don’t think it is,” he says. An all-white grand jury declined to indict. “I did William a Ford trained as an artist and architectural welder, and worked as a documentary series editor before and during the film’s long production period. Since then, we have had President Trump’s pardoning of sheriff Joe Arpaio, not to mention heavily armed Nazis, Klansmen and white supremacists marching through Charlottesville, a grotesque spectacle compounded by Trump’s failure to condemn them. According to Kevin's account, William and Tom Datre were in the yard outside the garage. We get the feeling that parts of them retreated Dunmore Ford, an educator who founded Rosewood, a school for women on A grand jury receives a bill of indictment - a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime - which is submitted by the prosecution. They also asked questions about William's size, and weight, rather than focusing on the crime. Norėdami leisti „Verizon Media“ ir mūsų partneriams tvarkyti jūsų asmens duomenis, pasirinkite „Sutinku“ arba pasirinkite „Tvarkyti nuostatas“, jei norite gauti daugiau informacijos ir valdyti savo pasirinkimus. In Yance Ford’s powerful, disturbing, and very personal documentary, It is no cause for celebration that the “relevance” of Strong Island, and other films presenting the African American experience, continues to grow. "I will die believing that they didn't care because my son was a man of colour". determined which questions the white investigators asked in William In 1972 realiseerden ze hun American Dream en kochten een huis in Central Islip. And makes history as the first transgender Oscar nominee. “This film is questioning if it was reasonable to decide there was no probable cause to move forward to trial. picked up and brandished a car door, to some laughter in the shop. although the property taxes were high. William Ford Jr., a 24-year-old high school math teacher who’d been recently hailed as a hero for detaining an armed robber on the street, was shot and killed on April 7, 1992. unwilling to accept that someone else gets to say who Williams was. had a good time, while the parents labored to keep them in Catholic De tekst is beschikbaar onder de licentie. All rights reserved. Strong Island is not an investigative documentary. I know how to bend things. Strong Island follows three generations of the Ford family, with the central focus being the 1992 killing of Yance’s brother William Ford, by a 19-year-old man who never faced charges for the crime (the Ford family is African-American, and the shooter is white.) He died before Yance Ford’s mother, Barbara findings that, afraid for his life, he had shot Ford in self-defense. Kevin recalls that there were about 20 people in the shop at the time, and most were laughing and cajoling William as he tried to grab a car door, threw a hoover and picked up a hammer. Career. “It draws a line around your life,” she says. Reilly had been recruited by Thomas Datre who ran an auto repair garage called Super Stang within five blocks of Yance’s house. Perhaps she She died in 2012, during the production of the film. His mother, Barbara, speaks eloquently and movingly of her loss, and the silence that fell over the grieving household. What follows is an unflinching look into loss - how William's death impacted on his family, both mentally and physically - and racial injustice; how the US justice system sometimes seems interwoven with institutional racism. “William’s death killed his family along with their dreams and aspirations.”. been shot during a holdup at an A.T.M., and it was William Ford, William was also a teacher, and was training to become a corrections officer when he was shot. black people is to ignore them; the easiest way to cope with pain is not reckless youth has been revised as a responsibility of black tutelage, a happened to the Ford family afterward. I have no interest in giving Mark Reilly any space in this film. Credit: A summary of the case gives no brought up to believe that “our principal job in life was to love each Kevin said he was taken aback when police interrogated him about his weight, how often he frequented the gym, and his size. As a result, he says: “I think he looks like, no offence to present company, every white man I’ve ever seen … he looks like anybody, anyone, everyone. physical threat they were. His friend Kevin Myers, who was outside the body details are important. schools, because, in reality, the public schools weren’t good enough, Don’t talk back; above all, shop when the shooting occurred, was prepared to testify in court that “And that’s what I want Strong Island to do.”. [3] In 2017 werd Ford op nummer 97 geplaatst van de 100 meest invloedrijke Afro-Amerikanen tussen 25 en 45 jaar oud, door het Afro-Amerikaans cultureel magazine The Root.[4]. Ad Choices. He’s everywhere.”, It’s a bold admission. for encounters with the police. Her father died of an asthma It’s a talk rooted in black history, and What has become starkly clear is that it doesn’t just bend itself. Here are home movies, sixteenth-birthday parties or More than twenty years later, the investigating officer on the case Netflix, The scene of William Ford Jr.’s 1992 shooting, in the present day, The Ford family: William (back) and Yance (in white) with sister Lauren. Detective Hughes stated that Reilly was afraid of Ford, and thus they believed him to have acted in self-defence - even though William wasn't armed, a letter to the DA confirmed. Detectives seemed only interested in asking the friend how much he Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The main reason the crime had been deemed a "justifiable shooting", Yance explained, was due to the hoover throwing incident. I am reminded of the quote attributed to Martin Luther King, which President Obama had embroidered into a rug in the White House: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” In the Obama era, it felt as if that was starting to happen; now, less so. This is not what the Ford surviving family members believe. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Yance Ford interviews his family to address the injustice surrounding his brother's killing. That’s what so many of these murders have in common: ‘Strong, scary, big, black, angry, out-of-control’. “Then, in 2012, when Trayvon Martin was shot, everyone came out of the woodwork like: ‘Your story’s so relevant! His killer? Though Reilly and the officials who originally handled the case could not be reached for comment by PEOPLE, former Suffolk County, New York, investigator James Hughes says in the documentary that the evidence supported the grand jury’s decision. he was frightened of Ford, a short but stocky young black man. Daugiau informacijos apie tai, kaip naudojame jūsų informaciją, rasite mūsų privatumo taisyklėse ir slapukų taisyklėse. Netflix announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to filmmaker Yance Ford's powerful, poetic documentary STRONG ISLAND, which had its world premiere at … Naomi Gordon is news writer mainly covering entertainment news with a focus on celebrity interviews and television. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. It’s horrifying.” These incidents do, at least, provide incontrovertible proof of the racism in US society whose existence Ford and so many other African American families have asserted for decades. But it has become part of a national argument about whether young black men can feel safe in the US, Wed 13 Sep 2017 16.00 BST
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