Black in America: Black and Blue

2014, 54 minutes

The challenging relationship between the Police and the black community and how citizen captured phone videos are changing the game.

When Eric Garner died in a choke hold while being arrested for selling loose cigarettes on the street in Staten Island, it was just one in a series of recent "captured on camera" instances of police reactions leading to death. Black and Blue examines the challenging relationship between the Police and the black community resulting from the "stop and Frisk" policies of the NYPD. The film shows how citizen captured phone videos are changing the game.

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