Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip Hop Cop
FREE! Families Film Forum Presents:
Back to back “Black and Blue” – the discussion of police/community relations in our neighborhoods continues with King Downing, Kahlil Khan from Movement in Motion and other artists/activists fighting police repression.
Black and Blue: LEGENDS OF THE HIP HOP COP
Retired first-grade NYPD detective Derrick Parker established a so-called "Rap Intel" unit following the murder of Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. By 2004, word of Parker's secret unit was leaked to the press, unleashing a firestorm of controversy including arguments that the NYPD's rap unit blurred the line between monitoring and profiling.
The ACLU launched a crusade against "hip-hop surveillance," deemed the "the new Cointelpro." Via exclusive, in-depth interviews with Parker--as well as rappers, security guards, civil rights activists and other members of the hip-hop community—viewers are taken inside the so-called "hip-hop patrol" in New York City and Miami. Narrated by Saul Williams.
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