Episode 1: Amelia Carter

On May 31, 2020, Amelia Carter and other residents of 52nd Street, in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Cobbs Creek, were attacked by the Philadelphia Police Department in response to unrest over the murder of George Floyd. Private university police forces from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), where Carter works, participated in the crackdown. Horrified by the seven-hour police occupation of her neighborhood by officers from her own university, Carter, along with the ACLU and other organizations made a formal request that the United Nations initiate a formal investigation. The outspoken Carter joined our crew to talk about the incident and how it inspired her to create a short action, animated film, “Testimony: 52nd St. and the Invisible Violence of Penn”. The film was screened at The Women’s Film Festival in Philadelphia and has now been shown around the world. Our conversation veered from serious to silly as we spoke with the engaging Ms. Carter.

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Through her testimony, Amelia attempts to disrupt the normalization of everyday acts of institutional violence and white supremacy perpetrated by the university and interrogates why Penn Police were present that day. Through her own self-reflection, Amelia invites the audience to question the societal conditioning that leads to complicity in the face of this injustice and imagines a world where community care is prioritized over policing.

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