Independent Lens “Tulia, Texas” | Ryan Anson/ITVS
Cassandra Herrman, Kelly Whalen; a co-production of Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by CPB.
Berkeley, CA
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It was heralded as one of the biggest drug busts in Texas history, until a team of lawyers set out to uncover the truth.
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