I watched this with the kids last night and we talked about it afterward. The movie is a fictionalized account of drug raids in Texas that targeted black people living in housing projects.
The drug raids were based on the testimony of a single informant. The criminal case fell apart and one woman, at the behest of the ACLU, sued the district attorney. The case was settled out of court and the law in Texas was changed so that indictments could not be issued on the testimony of a single informant.
Bookzilla and JMan were very uncomfortable while watching this movie. The movie is not one sided. Some of the characters are too neatly drawn.
We talked about the movie and much of the discussion was about the powers of the district attorney. The kids seemed to think that district attorneys had too much power. I didn’t lead, or at least I didn’t try to lead them, to this position.