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Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On April 29, 1992, Los Angeles exploded when four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. But the city had been smoldering for years. This provocative documentary looks at how decades of racial tensions, injustice and a troubled relationship between the LAPD and the African-American community led to the uprising. Local residents, artists, and community organizers share firsthand accounts of police brutality, the '65 Watts riots,...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows the efforts of former gang members who are now committed to stopping the violence that they once enacted themselves. A former Black Panther leads a sixteen-week course full of gang members and community outreach workers through a curriculum recently adopted by the Los Angeles City Council. The mission: Peace. The method: Changing the violent mindsets of influential gang member's one person at a time. The result: Hundreds fewer...
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