# Event Details - **Event Name**: John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join UCLA's Beloved Community for an evening with filmmakers Doug Harris & Brian Spencer, and legendary civil rights attorney John Burris.About this EventSince 2015, the UCLA Beloved Community Initiative (BCI) has been a public service program that offers immersive multimedia interdisciplinary programs that examine contemporary and historical issues through film, broadcasts, panels, and more to effect positive change locally, nationally, and globally.UCLA Alumni Affairs, the UCLA Ralph Bunche Center for African-American Studies, UC Berkeley Department of African-American Studies, UCLA Black Alumni Association, and the Cal Black Alumni Association are sponsoring this film screening and panel discussion."John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation" is Doug Harris's latest film to be featured in the UCLA Beloved Community Initiative's Reel Talk Film Series. This impactful documentary tells the story of one man's pioneering crusade to bring justice to victims of police misconduct and brutality around the country.Burris and his close friend, prominent Los Angeles attorney Johnnie Cochran, began pursuing police litigation cases together in the late 1970s after leaving their positions as prosecutors in Northern and Southern California, respectively.Burris's first high-profile police misconduct case occurred in Los Angeles in 1991 when a video camera captured the brutal beating of Rodney King by the LAPD, resulting in a landmark civil rights lawsuit. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/e6f56a50-3249-11f0-af2d-957837b76660-rimg-w1089-h740-dc15182e-gmir.jpg During Johnnie Cochran's O.J. Simpson trial, John Burris became one of television's first on air legal analyst who provided expert daily commentary on the case for all the major cable television news outlets. In addition to the many cases he represented over his career, John's advocacy through the law has sparked two of the biggest social justice movements of the 21st century.Burris's 2009 Oscar Grant case against the BART Police in Oakland was the first known use of cell phone video that documented a live police killing. Community protests centered around the case birthed the national Black Lives Matter movement.His 2015 case against the San Francisco Police Department's brutal killing of Mario Woods sparked Colin Kaepernick to kneel in protest during the national anthem of NFL games.John Burris is a transcendent legal legend and community treasure.Click to see preview videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJE1WrgLfGg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/john-burris-godfather-of-police-litigation/100001366032362569 - **Event Categories**: entertainment, business, black-lives-matter - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD - **lat**: 34.01155 - **long**: -118.337406 - **full address**: Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD, 4020 Marlton Avenue, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d7ca7d6bdd09ff517f9db6b5455044d25ca36517241d152a8b446d5c72fb236f-rimg-w1121-h606-dc080805-gmir.jpg?v=1747395351 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation being held? - **A:** John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation takes place on Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 pm at Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD, 4020 Marlton Avenue, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation? - **A:** John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation is organized by Doug Harris Media. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d7ca7d6bdd09ff517f9db6b5455044d25ca36517241d152a8b446d5c72fb236f-rimg-w1121-h606-dc080805-gmir.jpg?v=1747395351", "startDate": "2025-06-11", "endDate": "2025-06-11", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/john-burris-godfather-of-police-litigation/100001366032362569", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "4020 Marlton Avenue", "postalCode": "90008", "addressLocality": "Los Angeles", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "34.01155", "longitude": "-118.337406" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join UCLA's Beloved Community for an evening with filmmakers Doug Harris & Brian Spencer, and legendary civil rights attorney John Burris.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "2025-06-11", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/john-burris-godfather-of-police-litigation/100001366032362569" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/john-burris-godfather-of-police-litigation/100001366032362569", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Doug Harris Media", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/doug-harris-media/25721550" } ] } ] ```