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A powerful mix of archival material, news clips, and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: King, Hugh L. (Film producer) (Director, Producer, Screenwriter), Williams, Lamar (Director, Producer, Screenwriter), Grant, Barbara (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1987.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Police > Complaints against > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Minorities > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions.
Police brutality > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations.
Police > Plaintes contre > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie.
Minorités > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Conditions sociales.
Brutalités policières > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie.
African Americans > Social conditions
Minorities > Social conditions
Police brutality
Police > Complaints against
Race relations
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
documentary film.
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:A powerful mix of archival material, news clips, and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of Osage Avenue. This documentary is a testimony to long-standing tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the United States.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed September 09, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource (58 minutes)
Playing Time:00:57:58
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Jeffrey Farber; editor, Hugh L. King; music, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Alan Sukennik.