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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

Documentary

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Release Date: 2020, October 23
Directors: Ajax Phillips, Daniel Joseph Watkins
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Braudis, Joe Edwards, Alex Sweetman, Ed Bastian, Travis Fulton

Overview:

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.