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Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police (trailer)

COPWATCH follows WeCopwatch, an organization dedicated to filming the police. Among its members are the individuals who captured the original videos of the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Freddie Gray in Baltimore that ignited the entire nation. Learn the stories behind the videos, and the great personal cost borne by the people who took them.

 

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