https://www.cnet.com/news/twilight-zone-replay-takes-aim-at-police-shootings-this-is-urgent/

The episode's writer, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, was drawn to this familiar trope when he set out to tackle how police interactions with people of color so often end in tragedy. Hinds watched video after video of encounters between the police and young black men like Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner -- the list of names goes on. 

"It was a really numbing and horrifying exercise," Hinds told me on the phone from LA, "and as I watched I got that feeling of time being rewound again and again."