One of the key moments in “Flint Town,” the newest Netflix documentary series, is not something that happens in Michigan but in Texas. Through archival news footage, we see a clip from President Obama’s address at the memorial service for the five officers killed in the July 2016 ambush in downtown Dallas. The president’s remarks included this idea: “We wonder if an African-American community that feels unfairly targeted by police and police departments that feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs, can ever understand each other’s experience…We see all this, and it’s hard not to think sometimes that the center won’t hold and that things might get worse.”
It’s a sentiment that drives much of what “Flint Town” — directed by Jessica Dimmock, Drea Cooper, and Zackary Canepari — is trying to convey as well. If the push to hear both sides of an argument has...
It’s a sentiment that drives much of what “Flint Town” — directed by Jessica Dimmock, Drea Cooper, and Zackary Canepari — is trying to convey as well. If the push to hear both sides of an argument has...
- 3/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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