![]() ![]() Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA’s complicity in the drug war. new york, febru- al jazeera america will premiere freeway: crack in the system, an original two-part documentary by award-winning filmmaker marc levin ( slam, mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. ![]() This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Freeway: Crack in the System Al Jazeera America, Theatrical, Netflix A feature documentary about the genesis of the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s and US government collusion, told through the stories of a major LA drug dealer and his associates, his connections in Nicaragua, and a pariah journalist who was investigating it all at the time. He’s ‘Freeway’ Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection. Production: Continental Media / Blowback Productions / Al Jazeera America / ROYAL Interactive Studios /įREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it’s the real story behind America’s longest war. The true story behind the epidemic of crack in America as told by the incredible cross-country drug operation run by a notorious drug trafficker. He’s an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation. ![]()
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