Episode 20 - The MOVE Bombing - When Police Plotted to Exterminate a Family

Published: Nov. 29, 2017, 5:02 a.m.

b"On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks by U.S. police ever took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people\\u2014including five children\\u2014were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization, city and police officials were revealed to have intentionally set their home ablaze, let the fire rage, and violently kept escaping men, women and children trapped inside. \\n\\nFeaturing a harrowing first-hand account with the only adult survivor of the atrocity, Ramona Africa, Abby Martin documents an indispensable\\u2014but largely unheard of\\u2014moment in American history. From MOVE's formation, to the arrest of the MOVE 9 political prisoners, to the build-up to the infamous bombing, The Empire Files chronicles an act that cannot be forgotten. \\n\\nWatch teleSUR's The Empire Files every Friday.\\n\\nFOLLOW // http://twitter.com/empirefiles\\nLIKE // http://facebook.com/theempirefiles\\nMusic by Fluorescent Grey"