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In Oscar-Nominated ‘Incident,’ Body-Cam Footage Shatters Police Account Of Black Man’s Shooting Death
The Chicago police fatal shooting of a Black man, Harith Augustus, is reexamined in the Oscar-nominated film 'Incident' directed by Bill Morrison.
“Augustus left the barber shop where he worked and set off walking along a route he had traveled multiple times each day on 71st Street,” reported The Intercept in a piece co-written by Jamie Kalven, who produced the short documentary. A group of five officers on foot patrol observed, as the initial CPD statement put it, ‘a male suspect exhibiting characteristics of an armed person.’ It is not clear why they thought this alone was a sufficient reason for a stop in a state that permits concealed carry. This, in fact, may be the most durable result of Augustus’s death: “After the film was completed, in December, 2023, the City of Chicago reached a new collective-bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police,” The New Yorker reported.
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