Baltimore Lives Matter

Documentary of the Week | Nov 24, 2017

Actress Sonja Sohn is best known for role in "The Wire” as the police officer Kima. Now she gets behind the camera for the HBO documentary "Baltimore Rising” following activists and police officers after the death of Freddie Gray.

— Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen 

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