Sin Bin of the City - Toughest Police Force in the Country

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Britain, 1981. Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister and tensions are rising in communities around the country.

On a hot summer evening in the L8 area of Liverpool, the arrest of Leroy Cooper, a young, black man, ignites a social uprising within an over-policed and under-valued community. The nights that follow are filled with violence, rioting, and destruction - a brutal social clash that was dubbed ‘The Toxteth Riots’ by the media and would damage the city for decades.

Sin Bin of the City attempts to unravel the events of that fateful summer and cut through the noise to the voices of the community at the centre of the conflict. Through extensive archive research and personal testimony, the film details the feelings of the L8 community: their perceived oppression by a racist police force and isolation from their own city, the events of the so-called riots and the attempts of the Tory government to gloss over a city in managed decline.

Shedding new light on events that are still seen as taboo today, Sin Bin of the City asks what, if anything, has changed in the community today?

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