{"id":408181,"date":"2021-11-28T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=225962"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:10:53","slug":"a-film-for-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/28\/a-film-for-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Film for Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It happened in 2012. The facts were known at the time, but they got lost in the crowd of all the other killings, the hundreds that happened that year. Even so, it signified what was wrong. Now, ten years later, the film gives us focus. Lest we forget, lest we cease to understand the rules of the game, and what we have to change, it reaches across the sea of time, reminding us, \u201cdon\u2019t buy the hype.\u201d<\/p>\n
What hype? \u201cWe\u2019re just doing our job.\u201d What job? Terrorizing an old man because he lives in a NY tenement, and says no? They imagine lurid crimes occurring behind all the cheap slum doors with their many locks and sheet-steel fa\u00e7ade reinforcements. It took the cops 40 minutes to break in, to finally invade the apartment of a low income retired black former Marine whose only need for attention was a heart condition. And shoot him to death.<\/p>\n