When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and a passionate quest for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated—igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history and disrupting a legacy of solidarity.

Down a Dark Stairwell is a participant of Project: Hatched 2021 and participated in the 2017 Diversity Fellows Initiative past program.