The Interrupters

[chrispcb15]

watch it

 

[thadocta]

Ok papi

 

[water]

P4L Want to hear other opinions before watching

 

[nazdrowie]

great movie great efforts they are putting through...

its moving to see the REAL impact initiatives like this can have on youth and even folks like Flamo...

...it opens your eyes to the extreme reactions over such petty things like those kids fighting over $5 its definitely sad...i really hope the situations out there improve especially since this kind of reckless situations can have disastrous consequences...my mother and grandmother live on the South side too and they have already had their hands full with people doing stupid things around them  

 

[big j 33]

The Interrupters  is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chicago drew national headlines for violence and murder that plagued the city.

The film features the work of CeaseFire, an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. In 2004, Tio Hardiman (Director of CeaseFire Illinois) created and implemented The Violence Interrupter concept. Violence interrupters Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra look back on their past experiences with street violence to try and steer young men and women in the right direction.[sup][1][/sup]  Matthews, the daughter of former Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, comes to the aid of the mother of Derrion Albert, a Chicago high school student whose death made national headlines when it was captured on videotape.

It's a great documentary, universally praised, well made, powerful, it's a much-watch.

 

[imnacho]

Great doc

 

[water]

Just watched. Pretty good

 

[servechilled81]

yeah, it's a good doc.  It might still be up on the PBS website