

Black and Blue
A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - 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.
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- English
- police brutality
- philadelphia, pennsylvania
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- PremiereFestival premiere at Theater of Living Arts during Philadelphia's Voices of Dissent Festival10 Apr 1987
- Digital / OTTThe Criterion Channel1 Dec 2020
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Black and Blue was released on 10 April 1987.
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