My Name Is Myeisha (2018)

My Name Is Myeisha: Directed by Gus Krieger. With Rhaechyl Walker, John Merchant, Dominique Toney, Dee Dee Stephens. My Name Is Myeisha is a hip-hop musical inspired by the 1998 police shooting of California teen Tyisha Miller (as well as countless other acts of police brutality against African American citizens) and adapted from the internationally acclaimed play, Dreamscape. At the moment of Myeisha’s death at the hands of police, she guides us inside her mind and muses over the life she will be leaving behind, told through hip-hop, spoken word poetry, and dance.

“Scripted as a look back, in a musical stage play sort of way, at the life of Tyisha Miller who died while slightly comatose sitting in a car w/a gun in her lap. As she suddenly became alert she supposedly reached for the gun in her lap which resulted in several officers outside the car firing nearly 24 rounds into the car a dozen of which hit her. I once faced a similar situation while traveling the country I would sometimes sleep in my vehicle at rest stops. I also had a gun in plain view. I too was awakened at night w/bright lights shinning into my car and several police w/guns drawn. The problem is your awakening consciousness cannot process the voices u0026amp; you are blinded by the lights so you donu0026#39;t know. Police protect themselves first, e.g. a person with a knife 30 to 50u0026#39; away is an easy target for at least half a dozen high caliber at lower torso disabling shots before they have gone 10u0026#39; yet they aim higher to kill.”