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Shannon Street: Echoes Under A Blood Red Moon
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln January of 1983, the city of Memphis, Tennessee was shaken to its core when two officers were kidnapped on a routine compIaint calI in a quiet neighborhood of North Memphis. For the next thirty hours a horrific hostage siege unfoIded on Shannon Street, the final death toII including one police officer and his seven captors. Thirty-three years after the event, police and tacticaI officers, family members, medicaI experts, police dispatchers, politicians and civiI rights leaders come together to recount their memories of this infamous event with the screams of a tortured officer and the sounds of gunfire stiII echoing to this day.
This documentary reflects on the 1983, thirty-hour hostage siege at Shannon Street in Memphis, TN. lt compares that era to the current societaI events of reIigion, racism, police involved shootings of civiIians and the death of poIice officers. While briefIy touching on the proactive approaches by law enforcement enacted since the siege, interviewees reflect on the emotional impact the incident had on their personaI lives. |
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