Amazon has rejected to stream a documentary from Shelby Steele, a well known race scholar and member of Stanford University's Hoover Institute, which challenges the dominant narrative surrounding the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Amazon told Steele in an email that his film titled "What Killed Michael Brown?" is "not eligible for publishing" because it "doesn't meet Prime Video's content quality expectations." Amazon added that it "will not be accepting resubmission of this title and this decision may not be appealed." Steele gives a voice to many black Americans throughout his film, including those with dissimilar viewpoints like the Rev. Al Sharpton. In 1990 Steele co-wrote and produced an Emmy-winning documentary “Seven Days in Bensonhurst,” about Yusef Hawkins, a black teenager from Brooklyn who was fatally shot in 1989 after he and some friends were attacked by a white mob. You can learn more about the film Amazon doesn't want you to see and find alternative ways to view it on its website, www.whatkilledmichaelbrown.com.
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