
The Shooting on Mole Street (1998)
N/A|1 Jan, 1998|90 min
A gripping documentary that follows two cops verité-style, while capturing the complex dynamics of a community where selling drugs is seen as the only option for many young men
N/A|1 Jan, 1998|90 min
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On March 1, 1996, 15-year-old Shafeeq Murrel was killed on the street in South Philadelphia — innocently caught in the crossfire between rival pairs of crack dealers out for revenge. Shafeeq’s murder was one of 435 in Philadelphia that year, and it was soon shelved as a cold case. Then, detectives David Baker and Julie Hill took it on— two middle-aged white cops working a Black neighborhood in their battered Plymouth Gran Fury. Filmed like a taut police procedural, THE SHOOTING ON MOLE STREET chronicles the investigation, as Baker and Hill knock on doors, shake down dealers, and beg, threaten and cajole residents in an effort to get someone — anyone — to talk. Baker rejects any accusation of police racism in the unsolved murders of young Black men. Isn’t he out here trying to close the case? But racism is more complicated than intent.
Keywords
philadelphia, pennsylvania
shootout
police investigation
dead teenager
cold case
Casts

Wladimir Yordanoff
Commentaire
Crews
Lizi Gelber
Editor
Mosco Boucault
Director
Dominique Alisé
Camera Operator
Tina Baz
Sound Editor

Olivier Goinard
Sound Editor

Olivier Goinard
Sound Mixer
Maria Moustrou
Assistant Production Manager
Anne Szymkowiak
Color Grading
Anne Ettore
Producer's Assistant
Fabienne Landsperger
Title Designer
Paul Rozenberg
Producer
Enzo Gallo
Production Manager
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