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Cast

Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant

Narrator

Crew

Lamar Williams

Lamar Williams

Director

Esther Croft

Esther Croft

Editorial Consultant

Hugh L. King

Hugh L. King

Director

Hugh L. King

Hugh L. King

Producer

Lamar Williams

Lamar Williams

Producer

Allan Sukennik

Allan Sukennik

Original Music Composer

Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Original Music Composer

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Black and Blue

19870.0 / 1058 min
Documentary

Overview

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.