The Twilight Zone wanted to tackle the subject of police brutality head on

CNET

"Replay," one of two new episodes released Thursday, explored the headline-grabbing police shootings of the past decade. Writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds says he studied some of those shootings captured on video. "It was a really numbing and horrifying exercise," says Hinds, "and as I watched I got that feeling of time being rewound again and again."

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