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STRONG ISLAND
September 15, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Yance Ford, director of this new Netflix documentary, is the brother of William Ford Jr., the movie’s subject. It’s not, and is not intended to be, a wholly objective study. Instead, it’s a study of grief, and conflicting perspectives, and the way the loss of a life can affect so many people. William Ford, upset about a comment about his mother made by a mechanic when picking up a car repair, returned to the Long Island auto shop later that day in 1992 to confront the mechanic. William Ford was 24, unarmed, a school teacher, and black. The mechanic, Mark Reilly, was 19 and white – and killed William Ford. It’s 25 years later, and Ford’s brother, Yance, revisits the case, the participants and acquaintances, and the case’s verdict.

 
 
 
 
 
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