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PSA Re-enacts Rihanna Beating

Activist organization launches new campaign

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 20, 2009 8:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – Rihanna’s alleged assault by Chris Brown is re-enacted in a new PSA, AP reports. Actors play out the scene while a narrator reads details from the police affidavit. “There was no need to sensationalize things. It was bad enough,” says the CEO of DoSomething.org, adding that white actors were chosen for the roles: “I think people need to realize that this is an issue that affects everybody of every race.”

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Rihanna arrives at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 7, 2009, left, and in this undated photo provided by TMZ, Rihanna is shown after she was beaten, according to TMZ. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles and TMZ)

Singers Rihanna and Chris Brown perform at the Z100 Jingle Ball 2008 at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Rihanna, left, and Chris Brown are seen at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday June 1, 2008 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

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"We didn't want to be overdramatic," said Nancy Lublin, DoSomething.org CEO. "Our goal was not to shoot a Lifetime TV movie. There was no need to sensationalize things. It was bad enough." (YouTube)

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This is an issue that goes beyond those particular people, and it affects everybody of every race. And so we wanted this to not be an exact re-enactment. We wanted instead to say: Could this be you? - Nancy Lublin, DoSomething.org CEO

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Mar 20, 2009 11:07 AM CDT

The PSA was powerful.... right up to the end, where they suggested wearing colored wrist bands would be 'doing something about it'. Horseshit. Doing something about it would include no time off for good behavior. Of cousre he behaved himself in jail. There were no women to victimize. Another thing to do is for men to teach boys it is flatly ALWAYS wrong to hit a woman. Period. Better yet, teach its wrong to hit another person, period.

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