The Interrupters (2011) on Netflix
NR20112h 5mCrimeDocumentary
Three former gang members work as Violence Interrupters in Chicago, stepping into conflicts before they turn violent. Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra draw on their own pasts.
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Plot summary
The CeaseFire initiative, an arm of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, treats the spread of violence as an infectious disease: workers go after the most affected and try to stop it at the source. Its Violence Interrupters are former gang members whose own histories give them credibility on the streets, and they step into disputes before they become violent. Ameena Matthews, once a drug ring enforcer and the daughter of gang leader Jeff Fort, helps the mother of Derrion Albert, a high school student killed in an attack recorded on video, and befriends a teenage girl. Cobe Williams, whose father was murdered, reaches a teenager just out of prison. Eddie Bocanegra, who committed a murder at seventeen, teaches art to children.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Interrupters (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After watching a screening of The Interrupters in October 2011, Bermuda's National Security Minister vowed to implement a CeaseFire-style program in the country, taking the film's subject beyond Chicago.
- Ameena Matthews, one of the three violence interrupters the film follows, is the daughter of Jeff Fort, who founded and led the Chicago gang the Black P Stones.
