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Rebel Ridge Director Jeremy Saulnier on the Very Real, ‘Very Unjust’ Police Tactic the Film Exposes

Rebel Ridge, the new Netflix hit from Jeremy Saulnier, starts with a veteran named Terry — played by breakout star Aaron Pierre — getting stopped by cops and

Rebel Ridge, the new Netflix hit from Jeremy Saulnier, starts with a veteran named Terry — played by breakout star Aaron Pierre — getting stopped by cops and forced to surrender $30,000 in cash. 1 on Netflix, tells MovieMaker he wanted to touch on issues like the militarization of small-town police forces without getting “sidetracked with injecting any overt politics.” But he found that civil asset forfeiture was something that people of all political stripes tend to dislike. But the joy of Rebel Ridge is that it also works as a taut drama about man standing up to a corrupt-small town police department (led by Don Johnson’s Chief Sandy Burnne) with the help of an aspiring lawyer named Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb.)

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