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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 23, 2020

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

100%

Original Title

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Director

Ajax Phillips

Description

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.