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SF URBAN FILM FEST 2018

The Ride

Directed by Jeff Adachi

SFUFF 2017, Films, Shorts / USA / 2017 / Documentary / 15 mins / English / Color / Video

Description

Take an up close and personal ride inside criminal injustice system with one of the nation’s few elected public defenders, City of San Francisco’s Public Defender, Jeff Adachi. Adachi defends a young African American man who is charged with assaulting police officers after being falsely accused of a crime in a case with racial overtones. In this era of mass incarceration, police shootings of young African American men, and implicit bias in policing, what are the consequences for those who question police authority?