The 2021 Academy Awards witnessed a powerful moment when co-directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won the Best Live Action Short Oscar for their film Two Distant Strangers.

Given how the Netflix short tells the story of a Black man stuck in a time loop forcing him to relive a fatal interaction with a cop, Free started his acceptance speech, "Today the police will kill three people. And tomorrow the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average the police in America every day kill three people, which amounts to about a thousand people a year. And those people happen to disproportionately be Black people."