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‘The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain’ Review: Excruciating and Necessary Viewing

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Lisa Kennedy In “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,” everything that might (hope against hope) go right doesn’t. Everything that could go wrong does, prompted by the disregard, bias or outright bigotry that has been at work when police officers encounter people of color or people with mental illness.

Chamberlain was Black and lived with bipolar disorder.Writer-director David Midell and actor Frankie Faison have delivered a taut, emotionally excruciating drama based on the police shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.

in White Plains, N.Y., in the early morning hours of November 19, 2011. “Hours” is something of an overstatement: The 83-minute movie approximates the real-time duration of the unfolding tragedy, which began around 5:22 a.m.

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