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The Shooting on Mole Street

A gripping documentary that follows two cops verité-style, while capturing the complex dynamics of a community where selling drugs is seen as the only option for many young men

8.0(1)19981h 30m0

On March 1, 1996, 15-year-old Shafeeq Murrel was killed on the street in South Philadelphia — innocently caught in the crossfire between rival pairs of crack dealers out for revenge. Shafeeq’s murder was one of 435 in Philadelphia that year, and it was soon shelved as a cold case. Then, detectives David Baker and Julie Hill took it on— two middle-aged white cops working a Black neighborhood in their battered Plymouth Gran Fury. Filmed like a taut police procedural, THE SHOOTING ON MOLE STREET chronicles the investigation, as Baker and Hill knock on doors, shake down dealers, and beg, threaten and cajole residents in an effort to get someone — anyone — to talk. Baker rejects any accusation of police racism in the unsolved murders of young Black men. Isn’t he out here trying to close the case? But racism is more complicated than intent.

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Released
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Language
English
  • philadelphia, pennsylvania
  • shootout
  • police investigation
  • dead teenager
  • cold case

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France

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Digital / OTTNR22 Aug 2024
  • FranceFR

    • TV1 Jan 1998

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The Shooting on Mole Street was released on 1 January 1998.

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