'Shots Fired' Creators Want To 'Challenge Your Perspective' On Police Shootings
It opens with a scene all too common in nightly news: A young man is dead in the street, shot by a police officer who thought he saw a weapon. It turns out there was no weapon.
But here's where the script breaks from the familiar: The officer is black and the victim is white.
That's the premise of Shots Fired, a provocative new TV drama on Fox, from co-creators Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood.
The husband-wife team talked to host Michel Martin about why they chose to flip the script on police shootings, in regard to the role race plays. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read on for an edited transcript.
Michel Martin: In the pilot episode, a special prosecutor from the Department of Justice, an African-American man who's played by Stephan James, gives
