The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

This is a perfect example of what great independent film can be. It takes place in two rooms, but is so well made that you never wish it was opened up. The realtime storytelling makes the heart wrenching story even more effective. Great acting, especially by Frankie Faison, Enrico Natale and Tom McElroy. I hope this film finds a wider audience. It deserves it.

This was a very difficult film to watch, there's no question that there are police all over America that are overzealous, that are drunk with power, who do not use common sense, and who escalate situations for very marginal reasons, oftentimes resulting in fatal encounters that simply did not have to happen, had they exercised more caution, better judgment and been more reasonable.

In my mind there is no question about the fact that police officers need more vigorous training on how to de-escalate situations and this movie presents a very good example of highly ignorant men flexing their muscles and doing something incredibly stupid and killing someone in the process.

This in no way takes away from the vast majority of law enforcement officers who are good cops, who put their lives on the line doing a very dangerous job, and are reasonable and judicious in their decisions.

The duration of the film is 83 minutes and the narration gets straight to the point. And it success to made the audience emotional throughout the film. But I think there should be additional narrative about the development characters here. I'm just tired of bad cops and their victims. It's already hard to watch people hurt because bad cops in real life.

But seriously, if you didn't know the story, you should watch it.

As A white man watching this I was enraged, I can only imagine what it's like for black people to watch.

It's filmed really well and you get a real sense of what went on on that horrible morning.

Looking at the reviews on here you can see some very racist views.

The coroner ruled that he was killed while on the ground and not while running around brandishing a knife.

The acting is excellent by the whole cast.

I encourage everyone to watch this movie.

It is hard to put into words how I feel after watching this movie. It is a very personal film for me. When I was a teenager, I witnessed a very similar incident of police taking unnecessary measures against a person who should not have been targeted. A very close family friend's son died after he called the police for what he believed was the process of a home invasion. It didn't take long for the police to turn him into the suspect and murder him in front of his disabled father. They did not try to talk to his mother and only told her to step aside. He was a 22 year-old Mexican-American young man. The official police report leaves a lot of details out and his family never got the justice they deserve. His father was a Vietnam veteran, just like Kenneth Chamberlain. Frankie Faison who plays Chamberlain gives an award-winning performance. He draws us in to his vulnerabilities and the traumas that shaped the man he became. After the horrific Rodney King beating and unimaginable George Floyd murder, I feel like most of us have witnessed enough brutality to realize policing must change in America (and around the world). We need more than just police reports. This movie explores a real-life incident in real-time. It captures the difficulties that police officers deal with, but also examines the threats many members of the community feel when they are helpless in police hands. The movie takes us into the internal and external dialogues police have with each other and with themselves. You cannot help but step into their shoes, into a high-intensity situation which requires methodological training. It shows the terrorization we are all feeling -where police and the community are on opposite ends. I can only hope that this movie creates a bridge between us all and opens the doors of dialogue; our cities must do better.