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	Podcast:		Uncover
	Episode:		S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioner’s Gambit
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:57:32
	Publish Date:		2023-05-22 08:10:00
	Description:		Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, relations between MOVE and city authorities have reached a crisis point. The MOVE home in residential Powelton Village becomes the scene of a two-months-long starvation blockade, and the site of a stand-off with police that will end in blood, gunfire, and the arrest of nine members of MOVE, collectively charged with murder for the death of an officer.
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