A young man named Dhoruba Shakur opens a plastic bag and removes small, charred objects.
This is some kinda shotgun shell, he says.
These are the big rubber bullets that they shot.
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This is a CS smoke canister.
This is a tear-gas canister.
The event received international attention and was a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement.
(Later, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson.)
The painful and elegiac documentaryWhose Streets?focuses tightly on the violent unrest that affected Ferguson following Browns death.
Then they segue into cell-phone videos of street protests that explode into war-zone anarchy.
This is not Iraq!
you could hear one woman screaming amid military vehicles and gas fumes.
In moments like those,Whose Streets?is a tragic yet essential portrait of a community under siege.B+
