Jon Osman and Jonathan Stack's documentary about the 1995 Bronx police shooting of three young Puerto Rican men is a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a "bad" police shooting. Detectives Patrick Brosnan (who had worked as a volunteer bodyguard to then-mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani) and James Crowe, of NYC's 46th precinct, claimed to have surprised Hilton Vega, 21, his cousin, Anthony Rosario and Freddie Bonilla, both 18, in the middle of a push-in robbery at the apartment of middle-aged Jorge and Hermalinda Rodriguez. All three youths were armed and a shoot out ensued, leaving Vega and Rosario dead, and Bonilla wounded. The NYPD clos...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins