Halle Berry bringing Tulia scandal to the big screen?

Via Grits for Breakfast comes this news that Halle Berry is going to be playing the role of the lead NAACP attorney in a movie about the Tulia drug bust. (46 people, mostly black, in a very small town, busted for drug sales based on the word of one officer.)
According to the article, production will begin in May.
Having a big star like her bring popular visibility to this aspect of the drug war could be very valuable.

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