The MOVE Bombing: When Police Plotted to Exterminate a Family

The Empire Files

S02E07
March 2, 2016 30 min

Overview

On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks by U.S. police ever took place in West Philadelphia. 11 peopleβ€”including five childrenβ€”were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization, city and police officials were revealed to have intentionally set their home ablaze, let the fire rage, and violently kept escaping men, women and children trapped inside.

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