Logo for Byte Magazine at Ball State University

Reality Check







Heartland Film Festival: ‘Marvin Booker Was Murdered’ is a moving, necessary tale

On July 9, 2010, at a little past 3:30 am, an unarmed, homeless pastor was killed inside a Denver prison after five guards restrained him, electrocuted him for 20 seconds with a stun gun, then denied the man life-saving first aid. The city of Denver thought that Marvin Louis Booker was a nobody, that his life would matter to others as much as it had mattered to them. They could not have been more wrong.