On Sunday, Phelim McAleer managed to mount a New York City production of his play “Ferguson,” a dramatic re-enactment of the grand jury deliberations surrounding police officer Darren Wilson’s 2014 shooting of teenager Michael Brown in suburban St. Louis.
By relying solely on the actual testimony that resulted in the decision not to bring criminal charges against Wilson, McAleer also debunked a lot of widely believed but factually unsubstantiated details about the case, including famously, that Brown had attempted to surrender by putting his hands up but was shot anyway.
“I just felt that the truth wasn’t being told,” McAleer told TheWrap.