S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioner’s Gambit

Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to
increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns
deadly, and by 1978, relations between MOVE and city authorities
have reached a crisis point. The MOVE home in residential
Powelton Village becomes the scene of a two-months-long
starvation blockade, and the site of a stand-off with police that
will end in blood, gunfire, and the arrest of nine members of
MOVE, collectively charged with murder for the death of an
officer.





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