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 Police brutality is a topic that never seems to leave the news. There are too many cases, too many stories from across the country that point to further abuse of state-sanctioned power. Some headlines attract national attention, even those that don't will leave marks on the community where it happened. In “Power,” documentary filmmaker Yance Ford pauses in today's top news stories to reflect for a moment and ask: How did we get here? Ford, who investigated the murder of his brother in the painfully personal "Strong Island," takes a much more detached approach than in his previous film. This time he is offscreen, but very present, narrating the journey through this multifaceted topic. As a parade of academics, journalists and police officers past and present unravel the images that have become all too familiar, Ford uses their voices to illustrate how deeply rooted the problem is in our nation, tracing the origins of policing back to XIX century. century when the mili...