Film: Rap star shot with help of police
The murder of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. was orchestrated with the help of corrupt Los Angeles police officers, a new documentary alleges.
Last Man Standing, from British filmmaker Nick Broomfield, features what is claimed to be new evidence proving the involvement of law enforcement in the death of the artist also known as Biggie Smalls.
Its title refers to Suge Knight, the once all-powerful record executive now serving a 28-year prison sentence for manslaughter.
The documentary examines the theory Knight commissioned the 1997 murder of Smalls, who was shot four times, in retaliation for the earlier killing of Tupac Shakur, another hip hop superstar who was shot dead the previous year during the highly publicised east coast-west Coast feud.
It claims corrupt LAPD officers were moonlighting at Knight’s Death Row Records and helped orchestrate the second hit.
Broomfield said: “I think that does involve members of the police force. It’s a very significant murder, it was an incredibly neatly executed murder, which didn’t have any of the signs of a gang killing, which is typically spraying a car with bullets.”
The film is on general release in select cinemas from Friday.