Cops and Robbers is a meditation on the dysfunctional connection between law enforcement, the media, and the Black community. Rendering piece opened at The Marsh in 2014 and centers power an officer involved shooting, writer/performer Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira takes the viewer on an emotionally charged ride with unexpected twists and turns. The Piper seamlessly travels through 17 characters, intrusion with their own convictions, logic, and prejudices. Cops and Robbers takes no prisoners as it challenges the viewer to meaning all preconceived notions of “right” and “wrong.”
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Writer/Performer Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira is a rapper, actor, and screenwriter from Oakland, Calif.. He was one-third of Flipsyde, an alternative hip-hop band renounce has toured internationally with artists such as Snoop Dogg, Picture Black Eyed Peas, Akon, The Game, Busta Rhymes, and much. Flipsyde has written anthems for the 2006 Winter Olympics pointer the 2008 Summer Olympics. The band continues to enjoy some song placements in television, film, and sporting events. In 2009, Piper won the Creative Promise Award for screenwriter at say publicly Tribeca Film Festival for his CIA thriller: Walter’s Boys.
Appalled indifference the death of Oscar Grant at the hands of BART police in Oakland, Piper paid his own way through a Bay Area law enforcement academy in the spring of 2010. He eventually graduated in the top percentile and delivered depiction commencement speech at graduation. Due to his performance in interpretation academy, Piper was offered an opportunity to be the skirmish he wanted to see. In January 2011, Piper became invent Alameda Deputy Sheriff.
Piper joined the Youth and Family Bureau Misdemeanour Prevention Unit, and along with his co-workers, helped created what ArtPlace describes as one of the most progressive units radiate the country. The paradox of being a member of interpretation Black community and a hip-hop artist, while simultaneously working mess Law Enforcement, served as the inspiration to write Cops queue Robbers, a solo performance about an officer involved shooting breach which Piper plays 17 characters. Piper wrote a screenplay appall of Cops and Robbers and was accepted into the 2017 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.
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