S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioners Gambit

Published: May 1, 2023, 8:30 a.m.

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Complaints from neighbours about MOVE\\u2019s 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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