Film reflects chaos that surrounds injustice

anyone else? A movie about their frustration ought to be equally frustrating to watch – and this one is.

Sohn, known from as Detective Kima Greggs, brings her cameras in close to the centre of the action after the riots that followed the April 2015 death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man arrested by police and transported to jail in a ride so rough it left him in a coma with neck and spinal injuries.

As the state prosecutes (unsuccessfully, it turned out) the police officers it charged with murder and other offences in relation to Gray’s death, follows several activists – from beginners like high school senior Makayla Gilliam-Price to more seasoned organisers such as 28-year-old Dayvon Love, part of a group called Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle – who want their outrage to become an effective catalyst for change.

A new police commissioner, Kevin Davis, embarks on a listening tour that makes for emotional documentary footage (“I’m sorry that law enforcement in this community is like this,” Davis says at one point, after listening to a former gang member and community leader Genard “Shadow” Barr recount decades of police abuse), but the scene is interesting mainly for its sense of futility.

Davis spends most of his time begging the residents not to riot again; the only moment of progress is represented (somewhat poorly) by police participation in a touch-football game with men in the neighbourhood.

There are plenty of personal stories: Kwame Rose, who gained notori- STRUGGLE: High school senior and