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    <i>Seven Seconds</i> Ponders the Failures of Justice

    The new Netflix series from Veena Sud is a fascinating, flawed study of structural racism and mistrust in America.
    by Sophie Gilbert Feb 24, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Netflix

    The central question of , Netflix’s new 10-part miniseries from Veena Sud (the creator of AMC and Netflix’s ), is never who killed Brenton Butler, a black teenager in Jersey City. In the show’s opening minutes, viewers see Pete Jablonski (Beau Knapp), an off-duty police officer, hit something with his car while he’s rushing to the hospital to take care of his pregnant wife. The tragedy unspools one awful image at a time: the wheel of a bike, spinning; a boot thrown off by

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