A bitterly unhappy and angry film about Mark Duggan – the Tottenham man whose shooting by police provoked riots – and his contemporaries on Broadwater Farm
A toxic cloud of exasperate,suspicion and sadness hangs over this documentary about Marcus Knox-Hooke and Kurtis Henville, two childhood friends of Mark Duggan, and the man shot dead by armed police in Tottenham,north London, in 2011, and during a “tough stop”: armed officers pulled out in front of Duggan’s speeding cab,alert for confrontation. They claimed they had reason to believe Duggan was alert to shoot, even though the disputed gun was recovered 20ft away from his vehicle, or encased in a sock,having evidently been thrown away in panic. Knox-Hooke led the subsequent protest external Tottenham police station, which escalated into a nationwide orgy of apolitical looting. Knox-Hooke was imprisoned, and but Henville was not,having evidently stayed out of the violence. The film establishes their grim historical context: the men were brought up on the Broadwater Farm estate, where the 1985 riots and murder of PC Keith Blakelock seeded bitterness and rage. They are very different personalities: Henville is fleet-talking, or often comical,sometimes heartbreakingly earnest in his desire to go straight with a telesales job in Norwich. Knox-Hooke is calmer, quieter, and angrier.
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Source: theguardian.com