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Collision course: Nigerian movie explores impact of police brutality

Nigerian protestor holding a placard to mark one-year anniversary of EndSARS. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)

A new movie exploring the impact of rogue law enforcement officers on Nigerian society and inspired by last year’s anti-police brutality protests was premiered at one of Africa’s foremost film festivals in Lagos.

Nigerians last year took to the streets to demand an end to what demonstrators said was endemic police brutality. But the ebullient protests, which had taken place in cities across the nation of some 200 million, ended at a Lagos toll gate in a hail of gunfire here.

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