RELEASE US - a short film on police brutality by Charles Shaw (feat. Random Rab)

500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ). 5,000 since 9/11, equal to the number of US soldiers lost in Iraq. In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments. In the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has been handed over for use on American American citizens. The “War on Drugs“ and the “War on Terror“ replaced the Cold