''Copwatch'' is a 2017 documentary film about the

Copwatch Copwatch (also Cop Watch or Cop-Watch) is a network of activist organizations, typically autonomous and focused in local areas, in the United States, Canada and Europe that observe and document police activity while looking for signs of police mis ...

group of activists. It depicts the organization WeCopWatch, including segments on Ramsey Orta, Kevin Moore, who filmed the police abuse of

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, and David Whitt who lived in the apartment complex where Michael Brown was killed, as well as Jacob Crawford, who seeded and co-founded Copwatch groups inspired by the Berkeley Copwatch group. Director Camilla Hall was on the front lines recording the WeCopWatch activists. She describes her film as "a plea for humanity. A plea to look out for each other; to look out for your neighbor. To not walk by when something terrible is happening to somebody else and taking that active decision to look out for one another," The film premiered at the 2017

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and became available On Demand on October 6, 2017.

Cast

* Jacob Crawford * Kevin Moore * Ramsey Orta * David Whitt

Reviews

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, the film holds an approval rating of 56% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 6.49/10.

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called the movie "Not only timely, but important."

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said "The documentary's handheld cinematography was ho-hum and its use of melodramatic music is graceless, "''Copwatch''" is finally undone by an inability to show that the work of WeCopwatch has reaped any rewards."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 6640526 2017 films American documentary films Films scored by Kris Bowers 2010s English-language films 2010s American films