Ava Duvernay Sued Over Interrogation Method Shown in ‘When They See Us’ – TMZ

Netflix and “When They Stare Us” creator Ava Duvernay are being sued over the police interrogation technique depicted within the film because of its creator claims the movie obtained his technique all foul.

A aged cop named John Reid claims in his lawsuit … the Emmy-winning film defamed him by saying his technique used to be frail to squeeze statements out of the Central Park 5 suspects.

Notably, he facets out a scene from episode 4 where a detective and somebody from the D.A.’s Build of job are discussing the interrogation of the suspects. The prosecution staffer says to the detective, “You squeezed statements out of them after 42 hours of questioning and coercing, with out food, lavatory breaks, withholding parental supervision. The Reid Methodology has been universally rejected. That is fact to you.”

Within the lawsuit, Reid says the technique he created specifically doesn’t educate withholding parental supervision, denying interview issues any of their rights or making threats of bodily anguish. He claims it specifically calls for added warning when interviewing minors.

Within the doctors, obtained by TMZ, Reid questions Duvernay saying, “We did our analysis” earlier than making the film by engaging regulations enforcement personnel to keep in touch in regards to the case. Reid claims if that were actual — Ava would have realized his technique disavows the selection of issues depicted within the movie.

He believes the filmmakers deliberately “fabricated a scene designed to broadcast to the target audience a dialog they made up that incorporated false statements as to the Reid Methodology.”

He goes on to protect the Reid Methodology, saying it’s widely frail by regulations enforcement … and calls for a structured interview and interrogation process that contains three stages: truth prognosis, investigative non-confrontational interview and interrogation.

In accordance with the doctors, Reid says his technique is the leisure but “universally rejected.” He says he’s conducted better than 6,500 seminars and expert better than 200,000 folks to make use of it, since 2002.

Reid says he demanded a retraction in July … 2 months after the sequence used to be launched, but Netflix refused. He’s now suing Netflix and Ava for defamation and desires the sequence to flip over a chunk of the profits, and other damages.

We have reached out to Netflix and Ava … to this point, no notice abet but.