Peace Officer (Barber, Christopherson)

Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson
Stars: Radley Balko, William ‘Dub’ Lawrence
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigation skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

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