Perhaps it's recency bias or just because nobody has made an oddly hagiographic limited series like Paramount Network's Waco, but the '70s and '80s conflict between MOVE and city officials in Philadelphia feels like it has become an atrocity largely forgotten by the country-at-large.
That a major metropolitan police force imposed an extended siege on a block of a city known for freedom, resorting to gassing and flooding before a shootout ensued — and that the city later dropped literal bombs on an organization's rooftop, killing adults and children and destroying homes — is something that shouldn't be exclusively in the domain of recollection for Philadelphians.
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