re: Luke Cage is getting great reviews - starts streaming tomorrow, Sept 30

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this place will lose its mind over this

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The lead actor in "Marvel's Luke Cage"told the Huffington Post Friday that the new Netflix show about a super-strong, bulletproof black man is “a nod” to Trayvon Martin and other blacks killed by police. "I can't imagine anything a black man would want to be more right now than bulletproof,” actor Mike Colter, who plays Cage, AKA Power Man, told the news website.

“When you're a black man in a hoodie all of a sudden you're a criminal." "That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do,” he said. “It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger. We wanted to pay homage to that — it's not something we were shying away from."

Colter said that when the Netflix show was filming, a Staten Island grand jury in December 2014 failed to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold. “No one was brought to justice,” Colter said. “There was no handing out of any sentence. There are a couple other things that happened during the time we were filming. We were watching the news and it was always someone being shot who was unarmed, and there is no justification for it. It's mind-boggling."

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