Incident

"How Police React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape"

2023 0h 30m EN

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7.5

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★7.5TMDB · 35

DocumentaryCrime

Synopsis

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Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, altercations and attempts to avoid blame. Bill Morrison delivers a chilling political investigation in search of the truth.

“How Police React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape”

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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Bill Morrison
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Bill Morrison shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "How Police React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt27990245 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 35 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Bill Morrison directs. Bill Morrison cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 3 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Editor Bill Morrison shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Marketing tagline: "How Police React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape".
6IMDB entry: tt27990245 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 35 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing: Bill Morrison
Runtime: 30 min · 0h 30m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Incident (2023)

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CinemaSerf2026-01-23
★ 7/10
This isn’t so much a documentary as a combination of video witness statements, and though there is not one clinching piece of photography here, by using a multitude of real time sources from CCTV and from the body-cameras of the police officers on duty at the time, there can be little doubt as to what actually happened to “Snoop” as he walked down the street. Coming from a nation where is it is barely legal for a cop to carry a weapon let alone a pedestrian going about his business, I found this to be a pretty sad indictment of a society where people can stroll down the street with a gun in their holster and where the police are so nervous that their shoot first then ask questions mentality is seen as a norm. What we see before us can never be justified, but for me it merely reinforces the fact that the more guns you have the more guns get used, and trainee policemen should never be put in a position where they can wield live weaponry on the streets of any city - Chicago or anywhere else. On first watch it can seem a bit like it’s information overload, but if you watch it twice and follow each feed independently, then I think it presents us with a tragedy on many different levels. It wasn’t just a man’s life that was lost here, but trust in a system that has always been flawed, but is now much more visibly so.

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