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An Emotional Niecy Nash-Betts Dedicates Emmy To “Every Black And Brown Woman Who Has Gone Unheard Yet Overpoliced”
“I accept this award on behalf of every black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor,” said Niecy Nash-Betts in a passio…
Nash-Betts won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie for her role, noted above, of Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’ Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, who got the brushoff from police when she tried to alert them to the horror down the hall. In one horrific scene, the cops send a drugged 14-year-old back into Dahmer’s apartment over Cleveland’s pleas that the boy is in mortal danger. Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old Black woman found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas in 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop
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