• Episode 4: The Commissioner’s Gambit

  • Feb 6 2023
  • Length: 58 mins
  • Podcast

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Episode 4: The Commissioner’s Gambit

  • Summary

  • Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, relations between MOVE and city authorities have reached a crisis point. The MOVE home in residential Powelton Village becomes the scene of a two-months-long starvation blockade, and the site of a stand-off with police that will end in blood, gunfire, and the arrest of nine members of MOVE, collectively charged with murder for the death of an officer.


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