From PBS’s Independent Lens:
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It was heralded as one of the biggest drug busts in Texas history, until a team of lawyers set out to uncover the truth.
TULIA, TEXAS premieres Tuesday, February 10 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS. Here’s the trailer.
Click here for more information about the documentary.
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From “American Drug War – The Last White Hope,” a film by Kevin Booth – the John O’Neill Project Part 15:
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For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Jena 6 – Part I,” “Jena 6 – Part II,” “The Situational Demographics of Deadly Force – Abstract,” “The Situation of Capital Punishment – Abstract,” “The Situation of Death Row,” “Why We Punish,” and ““Black History is Now.”
