When Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in South Central Los Angeles in 2010 as the suspected murderer of a string of young black women, police hailed it as the culmination of 20 years of investigations. Four years later documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield took his camera to the alleged killer’s neighborhood for another view.
Both an oral history and a lament for a neighborhood whose young women-some hookers, some not-went unprotected and un-avenged by L.A. law enforcement for decades.
– A.A. Dowd,
AV Club,
11 Sep 2014
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The film is as much a provocative expose of Franklin, who awaits trial on murder charges and has proclaimed his innocence, as it is a vivid portrait of a community long plagued by drugs, crime, poverty and desperation.