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201885 minPGdocumentary

Sugar Town

201885 minPGdocumentary

A young black man dies while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, Louisiana, a town marked by a history of racial division.

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A young black man dies while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, Louisiana, a town marked by a history of racial division.

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Shan Nicholsondirector

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New Iberia, Louisiana, faces deep-seated issues of racial division. The film recounts the death of a young man while handcuffed in a police car. It questions the actions of local law enforcement and the influence of the sheriff. This small town's history reveals a troubling pattern of injustice. The documentary runs for 85 minutes and was released in 2018.

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