6 h. ago The Perfect Neighbor review – a notorious shooting through the eye of a Florida cop’s body

Geeta Gandbhir’s study of the Ajike Owens killing turns police footage into a devastating lens on fear, race and a nation fatally addicted to firearmsThe true crime genre has a new medium, or maybe even a whole new language and grammar: police body cam footage. Faces of victims, witnesses and possible perpetrators loom up to the cameras, sometimes in the harsh glare of headlights or flashlights as the officers approach, their faces and voices eloquent of wariness or panic or indignation or suspiciously contrived innocence. And we often incidentally glimpse the faces of the officers themselves, one standing by blankly while the other asks the questions with what sometimes seems like extraordinary diffidence – though perhaps this is because they know they are being recorded.We have already had the Netflix true-crime documentary American Murder: Gabby Petito, about the slaying of an Instagram influencer by her boyfriend, whose main point of interest was body cam footage and in which, a...

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7 h. ago Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor: The chilling true story behind the documentary

Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor is set to be released on the streaming service in just over a week's time, and will tell the story of a devastating killing

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7 h. ago What is The Perfect Neighbor about? Inside chilling documentary coming to Netflix

A new true crime film is coming to Netflix this month, and it looks like one of the streamer’s most chilling documentaries yet

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68 h. ago Florida man gives cops bizarre excuse after speeding at more than 100mph

A Florida man gave a bizarre excuse to police officers after he was pulled over for speeding at more than 100mph.

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3 d. ago ‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it‘To this day,” says Geeta Gandbhir, “I’m devastated.” The film-maker is talking about the killing of Ajike “AJ” Owens, a black woman shot dead by her white neighbour in Florida two years ago. Gandbhir first came to the case in a personal capacity, as 35-year-old Owens was a family friend.But things quickly changed. She and her team worked hard to drum up media attention and pressure law enforcement and government institutions to take action – and hold this neighbour, 60-year-old Susan Lorincz, accountable. They began filming protests and vigils, intending to create short pieces for news outlets. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby review – documentary probes Britain’s most notorious baby killer

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justiceIs Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Florida attorney general says cops should stop enforcing open carry gun ban after court ruling

James Uthmeier told Sunshine State prosecutors and police officers that open carry was now ‘the law of the land’

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4 w. ago Florida man punched in face by cops during viral traffic stop sues sheriff and city of Jacksonville

William McNeil Jr. filed the suit Wednesday in Jacksonville, alleging that during the incident he had sustained a range of injuries

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