![]() ![]() ![]() A grieving mother with a message will be trapped into crying on camera Alfonso's character will be called into question protesters will march the off-duty policeman who claims to have mistaken a suit hanger for a gun will be exonerated and the cycle is set to repeat. In the aftermath of the killing, the ancestors help Alfonso reconstruct the facts Alfonso tries to see into the mind and heart of his killer and to comfort his own mother his classmates try to make meaning of the tragedy through a contemporary rendering of Hamlet (in which Alfonso was to have a role) and the machinery of police/politicians/media grinds through yet another depressingly familiar round of justifications. A new suit is in order, but while Alfonso is out shopping with his girlfriend, Danetta, bullets rip through him and suddenly he's a passenger on a ghost train filled with the "ancestors" he is now doomed to join-persons of color who were killed by white policemen and now wait for justice. ![]() Alfonso Jones is preparing to celebrate his father's release from prison after DNA evidence has proved the man innocent of assaulting a woman passenger in his taxi years ago. ![]()
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