Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, The

[Available on HBO MAX, via digital, and on various VOD platforms.] When mentally disturbed, 70-year-old former Black Marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. (Frankie Faison), who had a heart condition and suffered from bipolar disorder, accidentally set off his medical alert alarm on Nov. 19, 2011, in White Plains, New York, in David Midell's powerful, riveting, award-winning, factually based, well-acted, intense, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, star-dotted (Anika Noni Rose, Angela Peel, Tom McElroy, LaRoyce Hawkins, Christopher R. Ellis, Antonio Polk, Dexter Zollicoffer, Kelly Owens, Armando Reyes, Eunice Woods, Daniel Houle, Linda Bright Clay, Kate Black-Spence, Alexander Strong, and Nayeli Pagaza), 83-minute, 2019 film, three cops (Steve O'Connell, Enrico Natale, and Ben Marten) show up at his apartment door at 5 a.m. to do a welfare check and then recklessly escalate the situation when they decide to breach his steel door without just cause and a warrant with dire consequences.
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